I just wanted to post a quick weekend blog update to let everyone know that I’m starting to feel much better.  It’s been a rough week (or ten days) but I think I’ve finally turned the corner and am back feeling like myself.

Thank you so much to everyone who reached out with prayers, positive thoughts and support this week. I really needed it, and it always helps!

I’m really hopeful that this ‘bad’ week was a onetime aberration. I had a lot going on heading into Chemo Treatment #3 and I just imagine that the totality of everything going on – including the amount of medicines I was on – resulted in the enhanced side effects.

Brief recap of what I was going through in advance of Chemo this last time:

• Blood clots in right arm (diagnosed 5 days prior)
• Botched Port surgery on Friday (4 days prior)
• Slicing part of thumb off on Sunday (2 days prior)
• Terrible sore throat (Morning of chemo; no fever)

All of this led to me taking: Aspirin as a blood thinner, Vicodin and Antibiotics in addition to my daily heartburn pill.  So then, let’s pile to Chemo and Steroids on top of all that – and I think I can begin to see why I’ve been feeling rather crappy.

Good news?  By next week’s chemo, I should be off all of that extra medicine, have a fully healed port and thumb, and hopefully have higher White Blood Cell counts than previous.

So that’s it!  I’m really looking forward to my ‘off’ week this week, and feeling good for the next 9 days.  My only doctor’s visit between now and then is with the wound specialist on Thursday morning to get final sign off on my thumb.

I even made it out of the house last night, as my Aunt Martha invited me to join her to see John Edward (the medium, not the senator) downtown at the Hyatt Regency. We didn’t get a reading, but I always have fun spending time with Martha! 🙂

Thanks again to everyone for all of the extra prayers and positive thoughts this week!

Much love!

-Merv