Sorry! haven't been on for a week or so! Met with the chemo MD this past Monday. The chemo they are going to use will not make my hair fall out. She said it might thin it a little, but I can deal with that.
I am going to have to wear this casette thingy that has the chemo in it. The chemo will feed into the MedPort 24/7. I have to go back every Monday to get the casette refilled and have them do a white blood cell count.
I meet with the radiation MD next Wednesday. He was on vacation this week. Chemo MD said he will probably want to do radiation 5 days a week for 7 weeks. I'll know more about that next week.
Started feeling like I was getting an infection last night from the MedPort. Just started feeling really crappy. The area was getting really hot, and it hurt all the way up into my neck and jaw. You know how you feel when an infection is starting.
It was late (after 8pm), but I called Dr. Sullivan's office and left a message for him to please call me. Just thought he would call in antibiotic for me. He called me right back, but said from what I was saying he thought it was strep throat. I had 2 doses of Cipro squirreled away in case of an emergeny. i took one of them and went to bed. I felt alot better when I got up this morning. Took the 2nd dose later at work.
This morning Dr. Sullivan's nurse called me to check on me and to get the number for my PCP. Wasn't long after that Dr. Dennis' office called me saying Dr. Sullivan wanted her to check out the MedPort site and make sure it wasn't an infection.
Dr. Dennis couldn't find evidence of any strep throat, but wants me to continue on the Cipro for another week since it helped me overnight. I still think an infection was starting and the Cipro got it.
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