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April 21, 2006

Anti-body #5

It's been a hectic week, including no computer for a week. Following is a hodge-podge of thoughts. Away from treatment, a minor crisis at the hospital. Our officer in charge, age 50, had a massive stroke a week ago Monday. He's still not out of the woods completely, but doing some better. This caused work coverage problems since there are only four of us. So, I put in a 40 hour week which I'm not used to, topped off by getting stuck on Sunday night for a double shift when the relief man didn't show. It's taken me all week to recover and I'll be working 3 nights from now on, Fri.- Sun. The bottom line of this is a reminder that life is very fragile and I won't get stuck for 16 hours again. Now, as for treatment. Same old, same old with a couple of twists. I usually break out and in 2 weeks when it's treatment time again I'm pretty well cleared up. This time I didn't break out until the weekend before treatment and it was very sore stuff. And, I don't know how I missed it, but I did lose some hair on my arms and legs. I noticed a stubble on my wrist area that looked like new hair growth and by golly that's what it is. All the time wearing long sleeves and my scaly skin, I just didn't pay attention. Critical time again. That means CT Scan next Thursday and see the doctor the next Wedneday. Besides the cat scan I need to discuss my higher blood pressure, which now that I think about it started after chemo stopped. And yes, last Sunday tired and mad, I had it checked at the hospital and it was 5 pojnts higher. So, if you have any doubts, I would say being mad will raise your blood pressure. I hope I have good news to give you in a couple of weeks. Until then, good health to all.

Posted by Robert on April 21, 2006 5:18 PM | DIGG | del.icio.us | furl