Back in Houston

I'm back at my parents. I flew in on Thursday, my first day completely off of steroids. I felt really off the whole day and still don't fell right but that is to be expected coming off 4 weeks of dexamethasone. Fortunately that weird fuzzy brain feeling is getting better each day. Still swollen....I am drinking a lot of dandelion tea (natural diuretic), plenty of fresh green juice, and restricting my salt intake. I'm doing all I can to help my body get this swelling and fat off.

Yesterday I had a full body pet ct. I had the most amazing nurse. She has been a nurse for 36 years and was so sweet. She started an IV at a common place that people try on me, they never get it. Even when I tell them this, I still let them try sometimes. She is the first one ever to get it. We didn't even talk about it. She saw it, went for it and it was done. I think that was the easiest IV start that I have had in 10 years. I am a hard stick, I usually need the IV team. I wasn't worried about the scan when I went I was worried how many times I was going to get poked, because sometimes it can get a little crazy. Very thankful I had her for my nurse.

I had labs drawn yesterday. Thought it was so weird that a type and cross was ordered. This is normally done right before you receive some type of blood product. Come to find out steroids drop your platelet count and mine have DROPPED. No transfusion needed now. I used to get a lot lower when I was on chemo before I needed a tranfusion and would be fine so I'm not worried.  I just need to have more labs Wednesday and  make sure they are the same or going up before I go back home.

I won't get PET results until Wednesday when I see my medical oncologist and we will also discuss chemo at that time.