Update after last round of Chemo
Everyone, It has been two weeks since my last round of chemo. I wanted to provide some updates. For round 7 and 8 they took out the Oxiplatin drug as I was getting some nuropathy (numbness)in my left hand. It seems to be steady and or getting better. My feet are pretty numb. I was told that it could take a year for this to go away. I'm still experience the cloudiness of thought called chemo-brain. This gets more pronounced when I have low blood sugar or I'm tired. It seems to be getting better. I was told that it could take three months for recovery of this. The best way to explain it is that the chemo drugs act as a neural inhibitor and this causes the nuropathy and also affects me cognitively. It seems that the steroid they gave me really bothered my stomach. I get hiccups because it irritates a ulcer in my stomach. On my 7th round it was bad enough that I was throwing up blood and was admitted to the hospital. My red blood cell counts were not low enoug...