Today is chemo day. It is 6:20 am. Go through the motions. Can’t wait for 4:00. Should be on my way home by then. Always a nerve wracking time until I get settled in at Hillman. I’ll add to this as the day wears on. Here I go!
Well, I ended up back at home because my platelets are below one hundred. They are ninety six. Close but no cigar. It is a result of the treatment and is not due to anything I’m doing wrong diet wise. They will come up on their own so I’ll go back again next Monday and try again. Good news on my numbers today. Over time, they have dropped from 100,000 (to which that number always goes up at the beginning of treatment) and dropped to 10,000 last visit and today that number is 3,000 which means the treatments are helping. I’ll have a scan in a couple of weeks to see what’s going on inside of me. Once again, my anxiety over going in for the day was unwarranted. Even though I know I’m well taken care of when I go in and the nurses are so great and caring, the anticipation is always the pits but I suppose that is human nature.
The Stillroom 
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