response 39 of 257:

Aug 26 00:42 UTC 2003

re:  "#35 (senna):  Sindi, make sure you read all your bills"

Good advice, normally.  But impractical.  First, because there are so 
many.  Second, because reading bills is the last thing someone 
undergoing treatment would have interest in.



Bone marrow biop.  Boy, that sure was fun!!  Too bad the sedative didn't 
kick in.

Had a thoracentesis, too, a couple days before chemo started.  Looked 
like Old Faithful.

Important to eat a lot - especially fattening foods.  Lost sense of 
taste and desire to eat.  Dropped from 178# to about 152#.  There are 
books of what to eat when you don't feel like eating and there are 
nutritional supplements, neither of which were especially appealling.

A month after chemo started developed a blod clot in r. calf. Probably 
due to inactivity.  (Never felt so tired.  Even sleeping 12 + hrs./day.) 
Spent New Year's Eve in the hosp.  Confined to bed with a heparin drip. 
Ask the dr. about starting on blood thinners now.

Suggestion:  Cut your hair real short.  Wasn't fun to have most of my 
hair circling the shower drain.  (Took about 2 cycles before it fell 
out, though, and never lost it all.)  One bonus, some hair grew back on 
top of head where there wasn't any before the chemo.

Are you reading this or are you still blocking my responses??