Chemo, week 8
| Hair Situation | A nimbus of brown. If I were two weeks old, it would be cute. |
| Weight | Down 6 from normal |
| Symptoms | Clumsiness, absent-mindedness, and heartburn. Also some irrational exuberance due to the lack of a PICC line |
Tuesday, 4/15/03: Ta ra ra boom de ay, I finished chemo today! It was a pretty ordinary appointment, if you don’t count the gifts I brought Sheila and the nurses in the infusion center, and the fact that they took my PICC line out at the end. The drugs still wanted to show who’s boss, so I had the same fever and chills I experienced during week 4. This time, they were far less intense. I don’t know if the chemo drugs lost their will to annoy, or whether it was because I took Benadryl and Tylenol at the very first sign of chills.
Anyway, I’m conserving my energy to watch tonight’s episode of Buffy. I’ll write about today’s brush with fame tomorrow.
Wednesday, 4/16/03: Today’s lesson: get Hodgkins, and celebrities call you on the phone! Maybe I should start at the beginning. Alana has a friend who’s a writer on Law and Order, which I guess means he’s one step away from everyone in Hollywood. Alana remembered that one of the cast members of 7th Heaven had Hodgkins last year, so somehow she got her friend to get the actor, Barry Watson, to call me! He couldn’t have been nicer. We agreed that bone marrow biopsies were basically horrendous, and he was jealous that I got to give myself Neupogen shots (I told him he wasn’t missing a thing). Anyway, he was treated last year and is completely better now, so that gives me hope!
Monday, 4/21/03:: My grandfather (mother’s side) died Friday morning in his sleep.
On Friday, I had a PET scan that showed no evidence of active disease (in other words, no cancer). So even though I don’t much feel like it, wahoo.