Monday was a real struggle and really a waste of time. I had talked to Rob about getting bloodwork
done at his office on Monday but obviously there was a miscommunication since
the results wouldn’t be ready till Tuesday but Rob promised to send the results
over at 8. I got to his office around
10, and Valarie did her job as well as she always does, then I picked up some
food and headed back home where I dropped off to be and had such a struggle
getting out of bed. I finally got out
around 3 and decided to head into town to do my blog and then go to the Holy
Spirit group at seven. I was too tired
to blog so I called Rob and told him what was going on and how I couldn’t get
out of bed so he told me to stop the Zoloft which I was going to do
anyway. I parked in the Perry Street
garage and rested until 6:15. It was hot
and I got all sweaty and I finally had to open all the windows to get some air
in and I decided to drive about to air out my shirt and I put on some deodorant. I mentioned to Joseph that I wasn’t feeling
well and later he praised me for coming even though I wasn’t feeling well and
asked for prayers for me. It was a
pretty powerful evening with about 20 people showing up and some pretty good
singing. Both Marys chatted with me
afterwards but I still wasn’t feeling well and I was kind of numb driving home. I had an orange and some steamed vegetables
for dinner and went to bed around 11:15, taking a full valium and hoping for a
decent night’s sleep but that was not going to happen and I kept checking the
clock every 20 minutes or so. Awful
night but I finally got up around 6:15 and washed the dishes, took a shower and
then packed up my stuff and headed out.
Tuesday is going to be a long day since the bloodwork got messed
up again so I had to have the bloodwork done here even though I had it done at
Rob’s yesterday. Nurse Lorrie put the
IV in around 9 (it took her two tries but it didn’t bother me much) and then
finally we got the IV started around 10 so I won’t be getting out until around
9:45. I had a roommate, Lee, a 28 year
old fellow with stage 4 rectal cancer and he was getting 5-FU and
Oxalyplatin. He had a criminal past
(non-violent) but we chatted quite a bit about Jesus and he also is looking for
faith. He told me to talk with his
father Gerald when he came back and Gerald was impressive, telling me stories
about his seeing Jesus and other folks seeing angels around him. Eventually he knelt beside my bed and had me
confess in front of Lee and Gerald’s pregnant young wife that I believed in God
and Jesus and the Holy Spirit and he said that now the Holy Spirit had entered my
heart. I didn’t feel much of a change
but I did appreciate his efforts.
Definitely an intense and interesting guy who certainly has the Holy
Spirit in his heart. Claire Hall also
came to visit and it was nice to chat with her and while she was here Dr.
Trivedi came by and said that my test results were better, that my blood level
only a pint and a half down, and that the other figures were closer to
normal. She is okay with me going down
to 17 and ½ on the prednisone but she thought I should wean myself off the
Zoloft slowly, one pill tonight (I didn’t take any yesterday) and then skip a
night then one pill, then two days off before taking another pill. Sounds like a reasonable plan and I just hope
that I can get some energy back. It is
almost astonishing how tired I became. I
am pretty sure it is the Zoloft although Trivedi said the chemo could also
weaken me. She also said that it is
possible that if my numbers are good enough, that I may not need another
chemo. I took a twenty minute walk a
half hour ago and I hope to get another one in before my 9 pm treatment.
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