His white blood cell count is low. Very low. They almost refused to give him his last round of chemo yesterday morning. the doc forced them to start it, cuz he had already been delayed before starting round 2, and he didn't want round 4 to be delayed either.
To counter this problem, they're administering an additional drug this Saturday morning. It's a strong one - it will boost his bone marrow to help produce more blood and raise his immune system. However, this drug is $3000 per dose! Yeah, it's a long-lasting drug, but dayamn... they got raw gold in there or something? I know that one of the chemos he's taking has to be mixed an hour before being administered cuz it's a volatile and quickly degrading chemical reaction, but it ain't no three grand!!! Also, this new drug will make his bones ache.
Bones ache.
I've had my fair share of bad bruises and overexerted muscles and sore backs and sprained ankles.... but aching bones? From the inside? This has me scared now. We had band practice this past Saturday and Sunday (shows how he refuses to admit defeat!) and his fingers were a little sore afterwards. Felt good to see him jamming at full volume. But we didn't know that our lead guitarist's brother had come down with strep throat! He was lying on the couch downstairs with a wet rag on his forehead! Had we known this, we woulda turned around and ran like Moses' locusts were coming for us! We're all really worried and hoping he wasn't exposed to this strep throat for too long. If he gets that, it'll just kick his ass with all severity right now.
So we'll get this booster drug Saturday morning, and two more weeks of the Bliomicin, and then one week off to rest and recover. After that, we get a full-body CAT scan and weekly and monthly checkups and monitoring.
And ain't it funny..... the Discovery Channel had a special on Lance Armstrong last night. I didn't realise that he actually had open brain surgery to get the tumors removed as well as all the chemo he underwent! Just unbelievable.
To counter this problem, they're administering an additional drug this Saturday morning. It's a strong one - it will boost his bone marrow to help produce more blood and raise his immune system. However, this drug is $3000 per dose! Yeah, it's a long-lasting drug, but dayamn... they got raw gold in there or something? I know that one of the chemos he's taking has to be mixed an hour before being administered cuz it's a volatile and quickly degrading chemical reaction, but it ain't no three grand!!! Also, this new drug will make his bones ache.
Bones ache.
I've had my fair share of bad bruises and overexerted muscles and sore backs and sprained ankles.... but aching bones? From the inside? This has me scared now. We had band practice this past Saturday and Sunday (shows how he refuses to admit defeat!) and his fingers were a little sore afterwards. Felt good to see him jamming at full volume. But we didn't know that our lead guitarist's brother had come down with strep throat! He was lying on the couch downstairs with a wet rag on his forehead! Had we known this, we woulda turned around and ran like Moses' locusts were coming for us! We're all really worried and hoping he wasn't exposed to this strep throat for too long. If he gets that, it'll just kick his ass with all severity right now.
So we'll get this booster drug Saturday morning, and two more weeks of the Bliomicin, and then one week off to rest and recover. After that, we get a full-body CAT scan and weekly and monthly checkups and monitoring.
And ain't it funny..... the Discovery Channel had a special on Lance Armstrong last night. I didn't realise that he actually had open brain surgery to get the tumors removed as well as all the chemo he underwent! Just unbelievable.
