Only 2 More Treatments To Go

Another one bites the dust (I 🖤 Queen), and I now only have 2 treatments to go. Yahoo. Perhaps I could have chosen better verbiage, but too fucking bad. That's what came to mind. Done and done. I won't apologize.

I went for my second Red Devil treatment this morning. I learned a lot, I think. I met with my oncologist, Dr. Carlos Taboada, and he mentioned that although my white blood cell count numbers are good, my red blood cell count is borderline; I may need a blood transfusion. This is the same spot I was in last week. Fuck me, again. Let's just hope things improve. There's nothing I can do on my own but rest to get those numbers to come up. Ok, great. I will be getting an injection every day starting tomorrow through next Tuesday to get my white blood cell count up. Great. Again, long drives for 5 minutes.

He also mentioned something I didn't know about this Red Devil,. which makes me think he is reading my blog, or is a mind reader. Neither of which is clearly happening, but.........the reason for the Red Devil is to keep the cancer from ever coming back, or metastasizing. This is a bit of a game changer for me. Until today, I didn't have this knowledge, and now I think it's worth it more than ever. I finally get why I have to go through all this shit and why my body is too. 

Infusion time. In talking with the nurse who was taking care of me today, she mentioned that your blood cell counts, and all of your other numbers (there is about 50 or so they test for every time), drop substantially for everyone on Red Devil. Good to know. I didn't know last week or two weeks ago if I had done something to cause any of these issues (aside from the infection in my gums that is now long gone), and now I know for certain, it has nothing to do with me. Awesome. I asked about iron. Why? If you know anything about the body, iron is in your red blood cells. So I thought maybe if I took a supplement or the gave me iron through my port, maybe that would help? Nope. Unfortunately not. What I have going on has nothing to do with my iron. Bummer. Nice try though.

My treatment went well. I slept through most of it per my usual plan. It's great I got a nap in because I had to be up earlier than usual today. Win!

Let hope these next three weeks are better to me than the last 3 weeks were 🤞