White blood count came back up and round 3was administered. This time around I have immediately
felt the side effects. I'm a bit unsteady (shaky) even when I'm walking. My new tradition with the start of each new round is a bowl of chicken pho. As I began to eat my soup, I had visions of my dad in his later years shaking as he ate. I'm sitting there trying to lift the plastic soup spoon with my hand shaking and mouth vibrating out of sync with the hand. To make things more difficult, I was unable to enjoy a glass of lemonade and soda (similar to a Lemon Squash drink in Japan) or a lettuce wrapped egg roll. Even taking the three chemo pills after dinner was difficult. As I'm sitting here, I feel a very slight vibration throughout the body. I can't figure out if it is a cumulative build up from previous rounds or the two weeks off due to the low white count.
Perspective check: I recently read that it is increasingly possible to live to 115. But I just may have a better understanding the inevitable degeneration of our bodies as we age. I should repeat that even in a crowded waiting room, I am still one of the youngest there.
Update: short term memory loss. I keep forgetting to run the faucet until the water warms up when washing my hands. Cold equals fuzzy electrical sensation on the skin.
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