This won't be full of accurate counts, as I just got back from NYC and Kathie was catching me up on my drive from Indy back to school.
This past week, Kathie's sister, Eileen, and niece, Melissa, came to help out in case the new chemo caused a down day or two - but this time around, it did not. Kathie felt pretty great all and all. In fact, Bob and her have plans to head to Tennessee and then North Carolina - or they did until today.
Kathie had a little bleeding today, and spent a couple of hours in the emergency room trying to figure out the cause. No answers have been found yet, and Kathie may have to go see a gastroenterologist (just what she wants to have to do again). They did blood counts to make sure her platelet count wasn't in the toilet (though to some extent, that's exactly where it was;) - that was Kathie's pun, I can't even take credit for that one.
Anyway, all the blood counts were reasonable, some better than others. She went to the bathroom later this afternoon without another incidence, so we're hoping it was just a side effect of all the stuff that has been going on the past 2 weeks. She'll be calling her Lafayette doctor tomorrow to see what his thoughts are on the issue.
As I mentioned, the chemo went well and no major side effects, but she can already tell that the cold sensitivity is real.
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I have a wife that has finished with breast cancer treatments - double mastectomy, a brother-in-law with colen cancer that went to his liver and has gone to his lungs, a sister-in-law that dealt with breast cancer - who had a son, my nephew, that just passed away from a rare form of cancer that started in his hip - they spent a lot of time at M.D. Anderson. I can identify with your ups and downs.
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