Day +10

Well, here I am at day +10.  The nausea is finally starting to subside (wo-hoo!).  I still have zero appetite so I've been forcing myself to eat.  So day +2 I ended up with a horrible nose bleed (the air in here is super filtered, and super dry) that lasted about 4 hours.  They finally ended up having someone from the surgical floor come down to pack my nose.  My platelets were only at 13 when it started so I ended up getting a blood transfusion and 2 bags of platelets.  The following morning they decided to give me platelets again before removing the packing (they wanted me over 60).  It was nice to be done with that whole ordeal.  They also decided to temporarily stop my Lovenox shot and they changed the platelet threshold to 30 instead of 10.  Day +3 was great because Chad and Dagen came up to visit, and I really needed that.  It seemed like forever since I'd seen them.  Day +4 was also great because they unhooked me from IV fluids... which makes it way easier to do laps.  LOL My days are pretty boring... I spend time reading, knitting, or watching tv.  Such an exciting life I lead these days, LOL.  So it had been a couple of days since the nose bleed incident, so they started my Lovenox again, and bumped the platelet threshold down to 10 again.  So what happened then... another nose bleed of course!  So day +6 I woke up at quarter to four in the morning with blood dripping onto my pillow.  Awesome.  This time it only lasted for a hour... then an hour after it stopped, it started again, and the same thing happened 3 times.  So needless to say since my platelets were only at 17 they had to give me some more.  I was getting a bit frustrated with the whole thing.  They changed all my parameters again and held off on the Lovenox for a couple of days until they thought I was done with the bleeding.  Hopefully I am... I'm using saline spray like it's my job, lol.  My parents both came up for the weekend, so that was nice.  They shared my boredom with me, LOL.  My WBC are slowly starting to go up (I started Neupogen shots on day +5) but I still don't have a neutrophil count.  And I developed an infection somehow and am on extra antibiotics for that.  Apparently it's pretty common... still sucks though.  I had to be put back on fluids yesterday because my blood pressure was really low (70/48), so that was a bummer.  But overall, things could be a lot worse.  My body seems to be cooperating slowly with making my new cells... but I'll take it, LOL.  I should hopefully be getting another visit from Chad and Dagen this week, and my dad is coming up for the weekend again.  So at least I have that to look forward to  :)