BLOOD – Last Round of Chemo

So after the transfusion on Friday I had two days of waiting.
In theory those should have been simple days.
Just waiting while the stem cells start rooting into the bone marrow.
BUT it turns out there is an automatic protocol thing that I didn’t know about…they stopped giving me anti-nausea meds.

My body was not ready to be done with anti-nausea meds.
For Day One and Day Two they gave me lots of Ativan and I took lots of naps and didn’t eat a whole lot.

Today (Day Three) was first day of my last course of chemo.
And I am back on regular anti-nausea meds!
This chemo is a two-day thing to help my new cells and old cells merge.
I have IV drips going non-stop to make sure that I pee a certain amount every two hours.

So since midnight last night I’ve been tethered to multiple IVs.
To help spice up the day, I developed a fever.
A pretty good sized one.
It got me LOTS of extra tests and cleaning and a guy with an x-ray machine even visited to take a chest x-ray.
They added another IV bag to the pile (an antibiotic).
Once I hit 103.3 I got Tylenol and things have gone down to the 101s.

So.
Been a bit of a rocky few days since the transplant but nothing too serious.
Just have to get through another 38 hours of constant fluids so I pee every two hours.
Fingers crossed the fever doesn’t spike back up.
Then I will be done with the third and final round of chemo and things will hopefully run a bit smoother.