Chemo #2 Recovery Time
After the second treatment on January 28th, I'm officially half way done with chemo---YAY! IF the PET scan after that shows excellent response, then I move straight to immunotherapy treatments, which are still administered at the fusion center through my port. I am currently getting one chemo drug and two immunotherapy drugs at each infusion. If things are NOT satisfactory or the tumors have not shrunk enough, (I have a big, 16mm tumor in the left breast, and smaller one(s) in the lymph nodes, then more chemo treatments will be scheduled. The first three days, you are on steroids. I take dexamethasone by pill form. Boy, am I jittery! I feel like an ADHD kid on a candy binge! My sugar is up to 207 this morning, but it comes down fairly quickly later in the morning. If I get another high reading like that, then I notify my primary care physician and I might have to take diabetes meds....just one more thing to add to my burgeoning pharmaceutical supply. My ...