Vorlon Whispers

March 30 Final Update

Chemo yesterday and my Neulasta shot today. I’ve done pretty well today. I got in 3 and half hours billable this morning. My Neulasta shot was the afternoon. I’m starting to feel its effects. I started taking ibuprofen, 600mg, about 12:00. I would rather have started about 10:00, but I was at a client site and got distracted.

My big challenge today and tomorrow is eating. Since most food tastes so badly it’s hard to find things I can eat. Each time seems to be some experimentation. By Saturday, most of my taste buds should be recovered. My caloric intact will degrade during this period. But since it only lasts a few days, I can easily make it back up again. So far, my stomach has been stable enough that I haven’t needed a Kytril – right after I just got that prescription refilled, just in case I needed it. I had three pills left and I didn’t want to not have it, if I needed it. In the past, I’ve taken on Kytril the first and second day have my chemo treatment. I thought that with the aftereffects of the radiation, I might need a reserve. Perhaps I was wrong.

Fortunately, my radiation is behind me. I have been absent from the tanning salon as they tell you to stay out of the sun during the radiation. That seemed like good sense to me. I’ll go back again in a week or so. I can see my tan is staring to fad. I rather view my tan as in indicator of my vitamin D reserves.

I expect tomorrow to be my worst day and plan on staying home and doing some work from home. I have found I can sit on the sofa with my laptop and get some work done and stay pretty comfortable.

When I have a little more energy, I’ll relate my discussion with the oncologist about the treatment of someone I indirectly know and my treatment proposal to him at our next meeting. I figure it part of my job to continuously challenge him to new ideas that he wouldn’t think of.

Posted by The Vorlon at March 30, 2006 9:16 PM