Good Morning All,Well after much needed sleep I can fill you in on Valerie's Monday. Well as Monday's usually go it was a hard day. She woke up feeling really nauseous and then all of the sudden had horrible pain in every joint of her body. After enough pain killers to take down an elephant she finally was comfortable or at least fairly ok. She finished the first kind of chemo yesterday, it is an awful brown orange color and Valerie has been calling it pumpkin juice. So, just the clear chemo or "cheap vodka" is left to go. We have names for everything! She received platelets again yesterday (bag of beer, do you notice a theme?) and she felt much better after that as well. Now for the good news... her white blood cells are down to 25,000!!! To recap a normal person is 10,000 and she was at 133,000. The doctors were very happy and said she does not have any of the side-effects that happen when leukemia "zucchini" dies this fast but that may be why she is having the joint pain.
Other nicknames include:
IV stand= Bessie the cow (udders and everyone has to move out of her way)
Leg compressors= Jelly fish
Breathing exercise thing= Elle (has a trunk like an elephant)
Platelets= Heferwisen (some kind of beer)
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