Learn Something New Every Day.

Well I finished Chemo Wednesday afternoon with no problem at about 2:00PM and I didn’t start feeling bad until about 5:00PM. I took my first nausea pill then and didn’t feel too bad afterwards. Then about three hours later, I started getting dizzy and a headache. On the first Chemo treatment I blamed this on the nausea pills, but this time I had taken it those three hours earlier. My next thought was my diabetes, but my sugar was 204, a little high, but OK. Then it finally dawned on me, Blood Pressure. I took it several times over the next couple hours; it was a little low at 78/50. I hydrated myself and by morning it was up little. I had to go to the doctor’s office to get a routine shot to make my bone marrow produce more bloods. The bad thing abut this shot is it makes your joints hurt, which mean more pills. When they took my BP it was up to 90/60 and I just took it this evening and it was 105/55 and I am feeling better. One good thing is that the nausea was only about 3-4 on my 0-10 scale Wednesday night where the first time it was about 5-6. I didn’t get much sleep between nausea and the excess gas it caused. While I didn’t figure out about BP at least I know now. I am still learning about this thing.

Today was a fair day afar as feeling good; the nausea was only about 1-2 which was better than last time. I am monitoring my BP and I counted my pills that I take just in the morning. It was 18, not counting the nausea, gas pills or the three different pain pills (small, medium, & large), that I only take as needed. Evening pills are about the same. My Mother told me a long time ago that I am over medicated, I over pay, and I am under informed, she might have been right.