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Not So Super

I haven't been feeling very well lately. I totally lost my voice on Sunday, and since then have had a raging sore throat, a cough that is getting worse, and pain in my left ear. These are not good things under any circumstance, let alone while undergoing chemo. The only saving grace is that at no point have I had a fever. While I never forget that I'm in the midst of chemo, I do sometimes forget how important it is to keep my doctors aware of these things - they seem so trivial to me. I'm so used to joking about my "superior immune system" like I have for years. For so long I escaped all of the colds, flus, etc that ran through our house.Turns out the jokes on me now!

Matt convinced me to call today and Suzanne fit me in this morning. The verdict is that I have a borderline sinus and ear infection. Technically I can say that the chemo lowered my white blood cell count considerably so my "superior immune system" has been temporarily compromised. I fully believe I'll be back to normal as soon as I'm done with this cancer business. Even now, this wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have a treatment coming up next Tuesday..but we can't chance it. So I'm now on a 5 day antibiotic regimen. Hopefully the antibiotics will knock it out and we can proceed as planned with Round 7 next week. If the symptoms get worse or don't improve by Thursday, I have to go back in again.

 Please, please, please work antibiotics!! I would be devastated if we had to postpone treatment by a week.

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