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alfredo

(60,327 posts) Wed Apr 20, 2016, 10:16 PM Apr 2016

Checking in to let you know I'm hanging in there.

I have eight more radiation sessions, and one Chemo.

I'm on the Fentanyl patch. It gets me stoned the first day, ok the second, and feeling the return of pain the third. I don't like painkillers, but I will make an exception this time.

Nausea is still a problem, but it passes after singing an aria to the pocelin pedestal.

So things are going as good as can be expected. I'm coping

My mother in law had a fall, it affected her speech, but she is improving

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Checking in to let you know I'm hanging in there. (Original Post) alfredo Apr 2016 OP

Hope future posts find you better. Like your spirit. Hoyt Apr 2016 #1

Either I'm in good spirits, or iM in denial alfredo Apr 2016 #3

Sorry to hear about your MIL. Solly Mack Apr 2016 #2

Aquaphor is what I'm using. alfredo Apr 2016 #4

Great song and I can relate. Solly Mack Apr 2016 #5

Right now I have to go to bed, but I feel a bit of nausea. alfredo Apr 2016 #6

I'm sorry. I truly wish you didn't. Solly Mack Apr 2016 #7

Thanks. The nausea passed, so I slept well alfredo Apr 2016 #8

Can you get anything else? PennyK Apr 2016 #9

It's the dry spittle that is causing the issues. I get a two drug cocktail after chemo then a liquid alfredo Apr 2016 #10

Keep marking those treatments off the calendar and then they'll be gone. sinkingfeeling Apr 2016 #11

I didn't have anything else planned, so I might as well save my life alfredo Apr 2016 #12

along with saving it onethatcares May 2016 #13

I will find out Wednesday if they got it all alfredo May 2016 #14

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

1. Hope future posts find you better. Like your spirit.

Reply to alfredo (Original post)

Wed Apr 20, 2016, 10:28 PM

Apr 2016

alfredo

(60,327 posts)

3. Either I'm in good spirits, or iM in denial

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 20, 2016, 10:39 PM

Apr 2016

I'll take denial if it continues to work😉

Solly Mack

(97,265 posts)

2. Sorry to hear about your MIL.

Reply to alfredo (Original post)

Wed Apr 20, 2016, 10:34 PM

Apr 2016

I got the Fentanyl patch as well. I didn't like it much.

Sorry 'bout the nausea. Is there something stronger you can take for it?

Got Silvadene for the neck area yet?

alfredo

(60,327 posts)

4. Aquaphor is what I'm using.

Reply to Solly Mack (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 20, 2016, 10:41 PM

Apr 2016

Last edited Wed Apr 20, 2016, 11:26 PM - Edit history (1)

This song came to mind

Solly Mack

(97,265 posts)

5. Great song and I can relate.

Reply to alfredo (Reply #4)

Wed Apr 20, 2016, 10:46 PM

Apr 2016

Thanks! for the shared tune.

alfredo

(60,327 posts)

6. Right now I have to go to bed, but I feel a bit of nausea.

Reply to Solly Mack (Reply #5)

Wed Apr 20, 2016, 11:27 PM

Apr 2016

Solly Mack

(97,265 posts)

7. I'm sorry. I truly wish you didn't.

Reply to alfredo (Reply #6)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 12:25 AM

Apr 2016

Sweet dreams.

alfredo

(60,327 posts)

8. Thanks. The nausea passed, so I slept well

Reply to Solly Mack (Reply #7)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 08:08 AM

Apr 2016

PennyK

(2,344 posts)

9. Can you get anything else?

Reply to alfredo (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 10:20 AM

Apr 2016

I was prescribed a drug called Ondansetron, to use after my super-expensive Emend is done (first three days after chemo). My brother, an RN, also suggested this one and has used it himself for seasickness. I haven't thrown up once, and I took it at the very first HINT of any queasiness. Never once did it go further.

alfredo

(60,327 posts)

10. It's the dry spittle that is causing the issues. I get a two drug cocktail after chemo then a liquid

Reply to PennyK (Reply #9)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 11:48 AM

Apr 2016

It works OK.

Surrendering to the nausea, and getting it over with works best for me.

Seven more days of radiation!

sinkingfeeling

(58,033 posts)

11. Keep marking those treatments off the calendar and then they'll be gone.

Reply to alfredo (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 05:28 PM

Apr 2016

alfredo

(60,327 posts)

12. I didn't have anything else planned, so I might as well save my life

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #11)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 05:34 PM

Apr 2016

onethatcares

(17,010 posts)

13. along with saving it

Reply to alfredo (Reply #12)

Tue May 10, 2016, 08:22 PM

May 2016

enjoy it as much as possible.

alfredo

(60,327 posts)

14. I will find out Wednesday if they got it all

Reply to onethatcares (Reply #13)

Tue May 10, 2016, 08:53 PM

May 2016

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