This blog is about my battle with Ovarian and Uterine Cancer as well as my husband's battle with Esophageal Cancer...we were diagnosed 3 weeks apart in April of 2014.
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
It's almost Christmas
Yesterday I had, maybe, my last chemo for a while. I am to have a CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis on the 30th of December and that will be the deciding factor. I am now receiving Doxil & Carboplatin every 28 days. I have had to have 2 blood transfusions to keep my blood counts up but my white blood cell count has remained low, it was only 2.9 prior to chemo. My chemo nurse said the cut off for too low of a WBC count is 3.0 but my doctor okayed going ahead. My Hemoglobin & Hematocrit are always a little low but I expect them to drop again as they, as well as my platelets, do after chemo. My CA 125 has remained normal since the relapse but I have been on Carboplatin almost all the time & there apparently is a maximum lifetime dose that one can receive. If my CT scan is good I may get to go at least until February without chemo. Plus I am looking forward to going to Hawaii next month & so won't be around to get chemo anyway. If I were to continue chemo every 28 days I would be getting it the day we fly to Hawaii.
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