Agh…..Back To The Hospital….Again?
July 13-14, 2015 (Monday-Tuesday): After a my first chemotherapy, I began to feel like I had the flu. Thinking you have the flu is not unusual for first time chemotherapy recipients but my continued to get worse and worse. My doctors worried that I could begin to get dehydrated so as I mentioned previous blog post, back to the cancer center today (Monday 7/13) for more hydration.
After 4 hours of hydration I do feel much better but my concern is how long with this last as this feel like that previous (Friday 7/10) hydration.
7-13 (Monday) It’s 10pm, I’m beginning to feel nauseated and sick again. I fear it is all beginning all over again.
7-14 (Tuesday): 2am, I am full on again, even ice chips can not be help down but less anything else. I am miserable! The morning can’t come soon enough so I can go back to the cancer center. My doctor said I could go to emergency but I didn’t
want to expose myself to any other ailment from someone else in ER, so I kept fighting on.
No real sleep in 5 days, not since I got my chemotherapy.
7-14 (Tuesday): 8:30am, I am at Comprehensive Cancer Center (St. Rose Campus). They took one look at me and my vitals and off to emergency they took me. Now, CCC is attached to St. Rose Dominican Hospital, so the trip was wheeling me around the corner of the same building.
7-14 (Tuesday): 9:00am, I am in my room with I.V. attached to both arms.
I immediately begin to feel better and fall a sleep….
11 days fighting everything you can imagine. It seems that the chemotherapy killed all the bacteria in my intestines… good and bad bacteria which left me exposed to more infection. I fought off Norovirus infection, CDef infection and Colitis all at the same time. I was in a high level of pain and miserable.
7-24 (Wednesday): I have finally clear all the tests and been told I will be released tomorrow to go home…Yeah!!!!!
7-25 (Thursday) 10:00am, I’m heading home to sleep in my own bed with my own pillows……
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I listened to this song everyday while I was going through the rough and tough days. Hope it empowers you as it did me.
Fighter (Kane Roberts):
