Saturday, April 23, 2016

1st Round of Chemo Completed :)

Hello to all,
Thanks to all of your prayer support and God's answers I have successfully completed my first round of Chemo treatments.
Yesterday was my 4th Chemo treatment on the 3 week cycle. The Chemo was a mixture of different kinds of chemo medicines. I call it the 1st Chemo cocktail treatments. God willing, I will start on the 2nd Chemo Cocktail treatments in about 3 weeks. I will have a treatment once a week for 12 weeks and then on to surgery.
I am still feeling pretty good, with no major side effects. I'm a little tired, but take lots of little breaks in the recliner.
My blood count is being watched closely; it is checked every week. The biggest problem so far was when one of the white blood cell count drops too low, which affects my immunity against infections, but I am getting shots to help with that and so far no real problems. Now my red cell count is dropping too, so they will be monitoring that closely and if it drops too low I will need to have a blood transfusion before I can have a Chemo treatment. I will also be doing what I learned as a kid from "Popeye the Sailor Man" and be eating lots of "Spinach" :)
So my prayer warriors, I pray you will all continue praying for me. I want you all to know I can feel them going up for me, and God has definitely been answering them all and more.

God Bless you all,
Marilyn
PS. Yesterday after treatment Gary and I also got to spend time visiting with my sister Barb and my nice Cheri... We had a wonderful time... Another one of God's blessing for us.

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