As you can see by the title I received my final dose of chemo today. My nurse Jill was nice enough to pose with the empty bag (although she hid her face at the last second). Hopefully if everything goes as planned this will be my last chemo ever. I will be keeping my fingers crossed and saying prayers it is. Again I tolerated the chemo pretty well today without too much nausea. The only side effect is I have to pee a lot because they are pumping me with fluids (from 7am to 2pm I intook 4L of fluid). This is kind of good because I made a rule halfway through my last hospital stay that every bathroom break I wash my mouth so hopefully all these pee breaks will reduce the severity of the mouth sores....stay tuned as they should be cropping up in a few days.
Today my mom, Amber and Al came for a visit to keep me company while Amy went to do some things. We had a nice visit and they gave us a picture frame with lots of pictures in it. Thanks to everyone that took time to send in personal messages with the pictures. They were really heartwarming and it was altogether a nice surprise.
They left at around 4 as I was beginning to feel tired and was going to take a nap. Well the hospital had other plans for me and hooked me up to a diuretic. So now I have been having to go to the bathroom every 10 minutes. So much for that nap...everytime I close my eyes all I can think about is going to the bathroom. :) It is kind of a good thing because since they have hooked me up I have probably taken in about 4 more litres than I have gotten rid of. It is ruining my favorite part of the day. They say when you go through these traumatic times to take things a day at a time and celebrate the little things. One of my favorite things is the weight loss...I tell you chemotherapy and cancer treatment can be an excellent weight loss regime :) I look forward to the scale each day. Although the past two days it just keeps going up....not my idea of fun....I will let you know after a week what I have lost. I had a new years resolution this year so this transplant came at a good time of the year and just might get me there....:)
Tomorrow I start my first two rounds of total body radiation. Not to sure what to expect but I have been told it isn't a big deal. The chemo has the worse side effects. I will update you all tomorrow on how it goes. Well my dinner got here and I have to go to the bathroom again so I am signing off..Hope you all had a great weekend! Oh yeah don't forget to keep clicking the ads ;)
Aaron
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