A couple of thing happened yesterday and today so I decided I should post. I started having a sore throat Wed. but then it really got worse yesterday. By this morning I decided to go back to the doctors and see if I needed to do anything about it. I was told that the throat is an area that might bother me because it is an area of fast growing cells. The Chemo kills not only cancer cells but all kinds of epically fast growing cells. The official name for what I have is a High Sarcoma. That means that it is a fast growing cancer. There is low, medium and high. I'm so lucky to have the high.
I saw the nurse and she was not too upset by my sore throat. She said to use Chlorasepitic and an high dose aspirin to see if that helped. So far it's working somewhat. It still hurts to swallow but then again I don't need to eat that much. I do have a bit of a reserve.
When I went in today the lady at the front desk said, Your early Tom, I looked at her as though she had made a mistake. She said your appointment isn't until 11am this morning. I said I didn't know I had an appointment today. Who made it? She said all she knows is that I'm on the schedule for 11am. When I went back to the Chemo office they said I was supposed to get blood work done today at 11am but since it was 8am and no one was there, I could get it done now. They took me into the lab and started to take my blood when I said, aren't you going to use my port? Both nurses liked at each other and said, you have a port? After showing them my port they then called another nurse and she took me into the port office. By this time they are all chit chatting about the screw up and I was asking if it better to have the blood drawn from the port or just stick my arm. The port nurse said it's up to me, but using the port is much more sanitary. So she proceeds to get the port ready for a blood draw. As it turned out it is a lot more involved to get the port stuck than just a regular blood draw. It's got to cost three times more to draw from a port than just a simple blood draw.
She then proceeds to stick my port and draw my blood. Since I had never had it done before I was a little apprehensive, but as it turned out it didn't hurt and it was just fine. When she was finished she started to look at the chart and said, You weren't supposed to have this done today. You shouldn't be in here until next week at this time. Sit here and I'll see why they had me draw your blood. About ten minutes later she came in and said I still don't know why they had you here, but your blood count is good so you can go.
I do like the people at the Chemo office, but it once again proves, "They practice medicine and if you let them, they will practice on YOU!!!"
One other thing happened today. When I went to shave today I noticed that I had very little growth. I think it's starting to leave me. I'll keep you posted.
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