This last Wednesday I drove to Scottsdale for my scheduled infusion of Chemo. As usual, the nurse attending me drew blood to check my levels to see how things were doing. Having only one treatment, I did not think there would be much change. While I waited her return, as I began to settle in for the 3 hour infusion process, I notice she was talking to another person at the nurse's station. When she came back, I got ready by pulling my shirt down so she could plug into my port. Then she said, "Your platelets are low, So, the P.A. who is filling in for your doctor (who is on vacation) did not want you to get more chemo this week. Your body is not producing the platelets as fast as we hoped." I asked, "Can't you give me a transfusion of platelets?" She replied " No, not until your doctor returns to the office." Feeling a little down and wondering if this was going to be the norm, and does this give the cancer a bigger head start. I felt there should be a bigger rush to get ahead of the cancer before it spread. I don't know. I was really bummed like a dog with his tail between his legs after no one would play with him. I wondered how could I help or do or eat to boost the production of my platelets faster.
When I got home, I immediately got on the internet to see what I could do to speed up the platelet production. I don't always believe what I read, see or hear from the internet, but respected sources, I do. Apparently be taking certain vitamins and eating certain foods will increase the power of your bone marrow to produce platelet faster or at least lean a helping hand to the production. But, the amount you have to take or eat was A LOT! So I guess I have to just resolve myself to wait for the doctor to get back.
Medicine and government both move at the speed of a slow snail. So I had to focus on something other than my cancer treatments. That is when I go to my shop and work on a car to change my thoughts and get out of the mind-set. By the next day, I was OK but still occasionally thinking about it, but not as much. I guess I always thought of Cancer as this wild fire disease spreading rapidly that was a battle to stay ahead of it quickly to stop it from going other places. But since my cancer was found in the part of my colon that was cut out, and the surgeon stated he thought he had seen clear margins of the parts still there, all of this is just precautionary? I am good with that, but please Lord, let's just getting going before it does spread farther. Not panicking, just a little anxious. I am not the typical worry-wart but want to know all the facts from a respected and authentic source. Not that the nurses or P.A. are not. Just want more info from my oncologist/hematologist doctor. I really hate waiting.
OK, it sort of sound like I am a worry-wart but to me, this is really serious, right? But we have other things to really worry about in this country and that is the present President and clone buddy Elon Musk. Our representatives need to take their heads out of the sand and see what these two (along with their other cronies are doing to our USA, our government employees, our Park Service and (I believe) our democracy. by limiting medias like the Associated Press (AP) NBC, CBS and PBS. By closing worldwide departments like USAID, Radio Free America, National Fire Academy, that he believes the nation is getting better and the Department of Education. And then Trump basically does a Telsa commercial of the lawn of the White House. The stock market has dropped any advancement made for the last 10 years in just a few weeks due to the Trump and Musk debacles and eliminations, firing and lay-offs. But yet, Trump says the nation is improving? Who is feeding him such lies that he believes the nation is getting better? PLEASE, do the right thing, contact your senators and representatives and tell them the people are not happy and want them to stand up against Trump and Musk. Until they do, it is going to get worse and WE THE PEOPLE will suffer with inflation and unemployment, state struggling to reproduce what the federal government use to do. Again, I am sorry.
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