CANCER VISUALS

The weekend has not brought too many problems, only minor discomforts. My lack of taste is a problem. The steroids I take make me think about food quite a bit! But eating is not particularly satisfactory. I must start investigating some different recipes for taste. My stomach is pretty bloated too.

It's nice to be able to be lazy, and not have to do much but time really flies when I'm not working. There seems to be so much to catch up on but I'm not feeling like doing anything in particular. I'm feeling pretty tired and everything seems to take a lot longer than it should.

I had a couple of hot flashes during the day yesterday when out shopping, I think possibly on both occasions I was just overheating, in a shop and then on a bus. I also had a mild night sweat this morning.

I'm trying to concentrate today on my white blood count, as I have had a couple of delays in treatment.

On treatment 4 my count was too low. I was going on holiday at the end of the week and didn't want to have to cancel it. So they gave me a GCSF injection to boost my blood count and I went back on the Friday and was okay to have treatment. I had to barter with the doctors to allow me to stay on schedule even though my treatment would be only 10 days later not the usual 14. They gave me three more injections to take home and have before my next treatment. My count was way up and they let me have the ABVD. However, I have to be careful that my blood count doesn't now "bottom out." I'm hoping that the injections raised it to a such a high level before the treatment that any damage will already be covered. So visualization's will be concentrating on building and rebuilding those cells.