Happy Weekend, all! It’s a beautiful day, so I felt that i should take this opportunity to write a quick update.

After only 2 weeks of Hydrea the side effects I was experiencing were worse than the symptoms of the disease. Not only that but my platelets had dropped from 880,000 to 552,000. After a discussion with the NP at my hem/onc’s office we decided that it would be best to stop the Hydrea for now. I am already starting to feel a little bit better. The nausea is subsiding, and the brain fog is lifting. I still feel it, but I can tell that it’s leaving.

I’m still not quite feeling like myself lately though. One of the problems I’ve been having lately, is what feels like a very swollen lymph node on the left side of my neck below my jaw. It has been very painful. It actually kept me up a lot Friday night. Turning my head, swallowing, even breathing was painful. I’m not sure what is causing it, but if it isn’t gone by Tuesday I will probably go see my GP about it. Other than that, nothing is really new. The spleen pain is still problematic, I still have a lot of headaches, and fatigue, but I’ll take those issues over constant nausea, and brain fog any day.

I will go for another CBC on Wednesday and we’ll see if anything has changed since last week.

Not much else to add at the moment, so I’ll end this here.

As always, you are your own best advocate. If you do not stand up for yourself, who will?

Until next time,

Lina