Errinlee's Cancer Journey

Well, it's Friday and all day yesterday I thought it was Wednesday so yay me, weekend came early. My last appointment in Vancouver went well.  My brother, Dorian, was able to go with me and help with support.  Thanks Dorian. I had a CT scan, blood work, oncologist appt and infusion.  All the regular but with a little extra.   I have been a little anxious about my scan results but I received good news today.....my scan was stable, meaning it has not changed from the last one which means I continue on the study. My blood pressure was up which was very strange because my pressure has always been very good but apparently this can happen on the BEV drug.  I am now supposed to monitor it at home.

Merry belated Christmas and Happy New Year to all! 🎄🎄🎄🎉🎆 My apologies for not keeping up on my blog.  As the treatments continued, I went down hill in energy and could only manage to keep up on the basics. Oct 4 was the last day of my triplet therapy.  Triplet therapy is where I received two chemo drugs and one study drug (Bevacizumab).   My white cell counts and my neutrophiles all dropped drastically.  Oct 7, I had a 3.5 hour nose bleed in the morning and another in the afternoon but for not as long.  I had another a day later and was told to go to the hospital by my oncologist.  My blood tests came back with platelets at 33 and neutrophils being below 1.  I then had to go to emerg every day for blood work and my platelets went down to 15.  Platelets were ordered from Vancouver because we don't have any in Whitehorse but I managed to stay above 10 so did not need to get it done.   Back to Vancouver Oct 23-25 for appts and CT ...