What a disaster! By 7 PM last night I had vomited up absolutely everything in my system and was beginning to work on all of the accumulated fluids in my system... talk about a 'cleanse'! My urinary output was virtually Nil. I had also been hiccuping almost non-stop since noon. The 'almost non-stop' was for about half an hour after vomiting, then the damned hiccups would start again. My guts were sore, I hadn't been able to keep anything down, I was becoming dehydrated. So, after a number of consultations with the Cross (including a mid afternoon call with Nicola, the day's phone triage nurse, that did get a subtle change in the anti-nausea medications) we headed off to Sturgeon Hospital.
At midnight we finally made it home, after being given 3 litres of fluid to stave off dehydration and the potential kidney damage that cisplatin can cause. They also gave me a med to stop the hiccups, which it eventually did, and a big dose of the anti-nausea meds that I hadn't been able to keep down long enough for them to work.
I got home and slept for about 10 hours. I've had my morning pills, with an Ensure (meal replacement), and am sorta waiting for any reaction. Lunch is something that I very looking forward to, not because I'm hungry, but as a way post that says I'm starting to get the cisplatin under control.
Everything we see and try to understand is viewed through filters that we have each developed over time for the different scenarios and situations we find ourselves in. As we swap out our perception filters, based on our ever-changing situation and circumstance, the filters themselves become distorted through the almost constant handling. It is these marred filters which determine our view of the world... Cancer and Stroke contribute significantly to the distortion.
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