Day 49 | WBC and tummy trouble

Adding a Day Count

I'm going to add a day count to all my blogs. I've seen it on other cancer blogs. I find it encouraging. I think, "she's lived with this for X Days." I hope that one day I can post Day 13209829013. Okay, that wasn't an exact science. It was me, pushing the keyboard numbers a lot...but, you get the point. Today is Day 50. 

I started Day 1 not at the lump finding day, November 19th, but the day of my biopsy, December 2. It was the day the doctor started talking about treatment options. The day she said double mastectomy. The day cancer didn't seem like something that only happened to other people. The day she told me she'd rush the results. (She later told me that she had a feeling about the lump....or maybe I dreamt that.) But, this was the day all this became real for me.  

I've lived 50 days past that day. And, that's a good thing. 

Tummy Trouble

Last night was bad. I barely slept. Was up every 25 minutes from 2AM - 6AM, when I gave up on sleeping. My stomach is really bothering me. 

So, I went to the doctor this morning. They are trying to identify what's wrong with me. They needed some samples...I'll leave of what to your imagination 😷 

On the table of things that could be wrong with me - 

• Rotavirus (gross)
• A different virus (ugh)
• C Diff (super gross, likely acquired in hospital)
• A parasite (double, triple gross)
• Chemo side effect (unlikely)

Hopefully it's something easily to treat. I should *hopefully* know the results before the weekend.

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Lab Update

I also got labs done to ensure the tummy trouble wasn't blowing up my electrolytes. The electrolytes were A-OK, buy my blood counts have plummeted. ....I knew this was a side effect of chemo. I just didn't really think my it'd be this fast. They wanted to see where I was during the Nadir period, when counts are lowest. I am really a little floored at the change in 9 days. 

Here are my count variances. Feel free to google lavishly or reach out if you're not used to reading lab reports. 

I've seen (on other cancer blogs) WBC being as low as .1, so I don't think I'm too bad at this point, but given this is only the first of at least 16 treatments...I'm a little worried. 

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I'll let you know later if I'm diagnosed with anything and if they can start an antibiotic or anti-parasite (barf) regiment.