Super Duper Chemo – Round Two

I wrote a blog post after my first Super Duper Chemo treatment saying I was so wrung out I couldn’t find any humor in the situation.

I speculated that after a good nights sleep I would probably feel a lot better and be back to my old self.  The next day I posted a follow up posting relaying that I was feeling much better.  The good nights sleep had worked.

Today I had my second Super Duper Chemo treatment.  I’m fatigued, like before, craving a good nights sleep, like before, but am feeling much better about the experience.

This is partly because the process is becoming routine.  It is also partly because there was good news from the blood work.  My white blood cell count is almost back to normal and my red blood cells are in much better shape.

When my blood cells are happy, I am happy.

This good news means I don’t have to go back tomorrow for the $5,999,99 shot.

The down side is that if I’d gotten the shot I’d know what it feels like to be a rich person.  Would all that expensive juice flowing through your veins make me crave caviar or cause me to to invite Phil Knight and Paul Allen over for a Budweiser?

This is something I’ve always wondered about.  Now I’ll never know.

Of course drinking beer with Phil and Paul would probably be similar to getting stuck in the chest with a dull needle.  Since I already know what that feels like, maybe I’m not missing much.

Another good thing is they changed the Super Duper Chemo mix so my side effects should be easier to deal with.  I will also be going in Friday morning for a two hour IV fluids drip which should eliminate the dehydration that appears to have contributed to my symptoms last time.

All-in-all, things are looking pretty encouraging.

I’ll let you know how it goes, but this has been enough for today.  It has been a long, tiring, brain numbingly fatiguing day.

I am going to bed.