this ref in Wikipedia<\/a> for more info.<\/p>\nAnother long day yesterday at Cookridge getting in at 9.45 am and not leaving until 8.10pm, a recurring pattern for when I have the treatment which involves oxaliplatin. (I left home at 8.15 and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t return until after 9.) <\/p>\n
I had an appointment with Dr A the oncologist to review the administration of the daily oral chemotherapy drug capecitabine which has been giving me diahorrea and other bowel problems. Unlike, the staff at Halifax he seemed concerned about these problems and interested in how to solve them prescribing me codeine sulphate instead of the loperamide which doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to control the problems very well and yet seems to lead to bowel obstructions. Nice to get as many opiates as possible. Such a pity that they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to have the same effects on me as they do on most other people. No pleasant feelings of floating away, or hours of blissful oblivion, they just do the job of killing the pain and nothing else.<\/p>\n
The news that the treatment seems to be having some effect came at the right time as after this dose of oxaliplatin I felt very ill indeed. I had to ask Lesley, my driver for the day, (thanks again Lesley) to stop her car twice on the way home whilst I threw up into the kerbside worrying all the time that any passer by would think I was a drunk & feeling terribly embarrassed to be vomiting in front of friends. The sickness carried on at home where I had to go straight to bed. <\/p>\n
This is the first time I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had sickness like this and it seemed odd after being given a anti-histamine, steroid and strong anti-emetic to counteract nausea. However, I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve worked out what happened. Because of the lateness of the treatment I was transferred from the day ward to another one. At the end of the drugs administration they give a saline flush. When the nurse came to remove this flush she was surprised to find I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d been hooked up to a dextrose infusion and not a saline one. As it was by now getting very late indeed she gave me a bolus rather than an infusion of saline. I presume this may be what caused my extreme sickness later on.<\/p>\n
I also have bad vein pain in my right arm which means I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do much with it and am cursing myself for not reminding them to use my left hand for the treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Good news on the tumour markers in my blood which have gone down from 135 to 65, a decrease which Dr A described as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153significant\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and very encouraging considering that I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been receiving the full amount of all three of the drugs that they usually give. The tumour markers are seen in the weekly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/79.170.40.245\/upshitcreek.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/79.170.40.245\/upshitcreek.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/79.170.40.245\/upshitcreek.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/79.170.40.245\/upshitcreek.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/79.170.40.245\/upshitcreek.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/79.170.40.245\/upshitcreek.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/79.170.40.245\/upshitcreek.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/79.170.40.245\/upshitcreek.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/79.170.40.245\/upshitcreek.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}