is alright for fighting. I'm back and a bit overly feisty (kind of channeling my father - he must have made one hell of a pain in the butt patient). Apologies for not logging in since Wednesday.
I had some fairly strong response to the high dosage IL2 infusions which made pretty much become a sleep-aholic with intermittent bouts of coming back awake to read or watch Cougertown (read books that is... Cougertown might be fun for tv, but it wouldn't win any awards for story arc or depth of character.
The 1st round isn't over quite yet, but they're pulling down the supplements that have kept my heart beating normally, and then I'll be weened off of the oxygen. I'm not going to lie and say this was an easy week... in fact I've had just about every IL2 side effect that was promised in the brochure with the happy people in the sail boats (except for the sail boat side effect...). I would not make for a pretty photo right now as my face has a bunch of little scabs (I swear I didn't pick at em!) and my lips didn't survive 100% complete either. My hands and feet look like they attached another person's body as they're so bloated from excess fluid. Apparently I'll get the "pee like an elephant" pill to start taking tomorrow which will take care of that in a few days.
The upside to having what Dr Curti considered to be a strong immune response, is well... basically I'm having a strong immune response and that's why I'm going through this process (at least the physical reason - perhaps there's some added metaphysical reason which will manifest in a fancy house on the coast or simply increased spelling acuity.) So it's a good thing to have had such a quick and aggressive reaction. The only downside is how they needed to bump up my blood pressure with "neo" (sp?) a bit too much and that caused me to miss the last few treatments, which considering my response to what I did manage to get in, the staff here continually reassured me that my body took what it needed.
So in contrast to my brilliant, if at times grumpy, father - I'm a pretty nice patient. I suppose I can understand becoming frustrated, but I feel as if I've made some friends here, and expect to see them and send chocolates and stuff once I'm healed.
thanks for all the good support everyone - I'll update the blog again soon once I've managed to actually eat something (food... it's not a very interesting concept, even if the fried chicken commercial made me wish I could still eat yesterday :).
Doss
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ReplyDeleteI think this treatment has improved your spelling skills immensely!
ReplyDeleteAh the joys of water retention. My body went into shock after my surgery and I retained apprx 15 lbs of fluid. My female anatomy was uneven to say the least! Hope your junk is holding up.
You're a champ my friend! And be crabby if you need to be. Cameron said he knew I was going to make it through when I starting saying fuck.