Well shoot, my leukemia is back. I was hoping I wouldn't ever relapse. I knew that wasn't a reasonable hope. I was also hoping that I'd have at least another year before I relapsed. No such luck.
On Friday at 9:45 I received a call from my oncologist. She told me the leukemia had returned and that I would need to decide what to do. I spoke with Emily and decided that I wanted to make a run at the bone marrow transplant.
At 1:45 p.m. on Friday I was admitted to room 804 east at the LDS Hospital in SLC.
I had felt fine but while driving to the hospital I could tell I had a bacterial infection. I arrived at the hospital with a fever and they started me on IV antibiotics. From there I had a PIC line placed in my arm, an MRI, and an EKG,
In the past 48 hours I've vomited several times, had high fevers, minor rigors, and they're still not sure what the bacteria is. Though they do know that I was right in believing it was a bacterial infection, they've cultured some of it in my blood. What they don't know is what type of bacteria it is, that takes several days of culturing.
It's unfortunate that I'm coming in sick. I haven't been able to eat, everything comes right back up. I told myself that this time through chemo I was going to keep my weight up. It's a bad start. I also told myself I wouldn't lay in bed all day, that hasn't worked out either. I've been to sick to do much else.
My fever broke an hour or so ago. I'm going to try to eat a sandwich here in a minute. Here's to hoping I keep it down.
Chemo meds start in a few minutes, hyper CVAD is the protocol of choice this time.
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