Scott & Sunny

Scott & Sunny

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Maintenance

Day one of maintenance started out pretty bad with Scott barfing up before we even left the house. This continued at the clinic along with a great deal of fear of having his port accessed. Scott was convinced that the piggy mucous would lead to his access procedure resembling a slasher movie.

So anyway he had his blood drawn from his finger and he had a bit of a lie down whilst we waited for the results. He was in a foul mood and so stressed he was breathing all funny. The bloodwork looked good again ...
anc -> 955
wbc -> 1.7
hgb -> 10.7
plt -> 235
good enough for chemo to start and thus port accessing.

The lovely Bob drew the short straw and did an amazing job, no flumes of blood hitting the ceiling, just a perfect access and an incredibly relieved Scott. He was given vincristine and methotrexate, but not the methotrexate of old, just a small dose to help keep the leukemia at bay and to keep counts within a certain range. If the anc gets too high he will be given a higher dose, too low and he will be given less. And no doxorubicon!! Yay for maintenance.

Due to the quite overwhelming interest in yesterdays fascinating fact - lol - today I found out for you all that vincristine (vicious and nasty pain inducing chemo) is made from violets!!!! Quite incredible that such an innocent looking flower can be a real bitch at heart.

2 comments:

Piper said...

I don't find that fact so suprising at all. ; )

I didn't want to admit that I'd spent time researching the plant alkaloid based chemos. Violets, periwinkle, may apple, yew trees and then of course, folic acid. All very green and piggie friendly. Fascinating.

Sorry for poor Scott's stomach, but thankful that the access procedure went well.

I hope the rest of your day brings some peaceful and stress-free moments.

Lots of love to you all.
xoxoxox
S.

Laura said...

Hi Skittles,

Just wanted you to know we were thinking of you today. I'm sorry the day started out rough so I will hope that the afternoon provides you with fun moments, relaxation (maybe some Full House time?) and a calm tummy.

Thinking of you all. I'll write again soon. Sending Smiles, Angel Laura