Monday Medical Report

Today's visit was interesting.
The first thing we learned was that Terry was going straight to the chemo chair for his blood draw and then for fluids. I suppose letting him go last week knowing his WBC and Neutrophils were critical had them on high alert this week. So when he mentioned that he wasn't feeling really terrific they were buzzing around and getting things done. He had at least 1 1/2 liters of fluid today, and another small IV bag of meds to help the nausea. So we felt like we were doing chemo again. Not really, but it was odd.
We got the lab results back and found that his critical counts have improved. They are now in the low zone instead of critical. Critical is not a good place to be for any reason, so that's good news, even if they are not in the normal zone.
Other counts are concerning because they are so high. They have to do with the liver and doctors are wondering if it might be due to some GVHD. I guess we are playing the waiting game again ... or still, to know what to do there.
He still felt crummy today. It is sometimes hard to describe how one feels, and to know why one feels like they do. He didn't do much at all today because he had no energy to do it with and he does still have some nausea. So much for medicine to help that problem.
He hasn't had muscle cramps much this week. He has noticed that the muscle cramps happen more when he works more, and because he was so critically low this last week he couldn't do as much as he would have normally, therefore, no cramps.
Normal is a strange word anymore! Just thought I'd mention that.