Friday, 28 December 2012

Thursday 27th December



Thursday 27th December

Cadged a lift into town early this morning with Son no 2 to meet up with FB and view the sale goods at Next. She then kindly gave me a lift to the hospital at 9.15am- early for once! After being greeted by the lovely nurse JL and had the usual blood test, it was a question of waiting…..

The results came back…. 84 for clotting platelets, hurrah, on the rise, BUT, and of course it’s a big BUT, my white cells are low at 1.7 my haemoglobin has dropped to 9.8 and my neutrophils are 0.78- so basically all this means is, I’m Neutropenic again!!

More waiting, more doctor to doctor discussions, who then finally decided that the best plan is to give me a GCSF injection to boost up my white cells, and hope my platelets don’t nose dive, and ‘review’ me again with another blood test Monday morning- with a possibility of chemo in the afternoon…. 

Happy Days!

Well, at least I know how I’m spending New Year’s Eve! (By the way my liver functions are all back to ‘normal’) One less worry for the time being!

Hubby came and picked up his poor deflated and momentarily tearful wife, who is finding the ‘ups and downs’ of the pantomime chemo a little tough- “Yes she is”, “No she isn’t”!!!

Anyway- there were two ladies in the ward that really were poorly, so I have absolutely NOTHING to complain about!

Had an extra-large hug from SW who popped in this afternoon to not only cheer me up, but also to learn/beat the Aunt at the card game Canasta (she very nearly did, but the Aunt reigned supreme) In fact we are all starting to tire of her ‘winning’ things all the time- it’s getting boring…..

I thought we could go to badminton tonight and join up with a club night; fortunately there were enough of us willing players to be able to play on two courts. We had a really good evening and had some close games and some not so close….!!

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Voltaire

3 comments:

  1. Please tell me you didn't queue outside Next at 5am !!! Did you bag any nice bargains ?
    You really are on a rollercoaster ride with that ruddy chemo ! poor you !! Chin up Mrs xxxxxx

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  2. I was just thinking the very same , whether you were at Next at 5am!! I have thought about it, but thats as far as it goes! Sorry to hear you on the old rollercoaster yet again !!! Fingers crossed for monday xxxx

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  3. Worry not ladies....8am! A few 'bargains'...

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