8th chemo +4 days

Hi everyone!

I derogate from the list of topics mentioned in the previous blog because I wanted to tell the story of this chemo. As usual this chemo has its peculiarities. First, I had an allergic reaction during treatment. The nursing staff is accustomed to this but Marie-Josee found it quite impressive to see me red like a lobster with a nice swelling on the forehead. When you see this you start to ask yourself if you are going to stop tolerating the treatments. As you know chemo is "it" for me. If I was not be able to take it I would be pretty Fuc... Uh, stuck. So a small shot of Benadryl and the reaction was gone. Naturally I dosed off like it or not. The next time the Benadryl will come immediately before oxaliplatin.

Another particularity this time is that the tingling in the hands are very present. Much more than the last time when I concentrated my visualization exercizes on the reduction of this side effect.
The last story is about my markers. They had forgotten to measure them in my blood samples of Monday. So Tuesday before chemo, my nurse asked for two other samples of blood because the markers were due. The result did not come out before we left the hospital Tuesday so we called Friday for the results. The disclosure of these results must be made by the doctor, since he could not call us on Friday, we had to wait until Saturday. We had begun to worry a bit. Is he not calling because the results are not positive? Friday night when Marie-Josee raised the topic I told her: "Forget it, if it was important he would call, no news is good news". When he called Saturday he gave us the following results: CEA @ 7 and CA-125 @ 17. The latest measures were respectively 10.6 and 16. A level of 5 and less is considered normal for CEA and under 35 for the CA-125. I am at the door to have both markers in the normal range of the general population. We are very encouraged. What happened to my tumours? I do not know but I can tell you that I look forward to the month of January for my new images.

Have a great weekend!