My mom started her chemotherapy treatment on Monday, June 27.
Each day that week, she went in for a two hour infusion of gemcitabine. She felt pretty normal most of the week, but as the doctors warned, days 7-10 after starting the treatment were rough. She experienced some degree of fatigue, but the nausea was also pretty bad. To the frustration of all of us who love her, she was also dealing with some really painful mouth sores called mucositis.
Dad took her in to get infusions of saline solution which were supposed to help her body flush the chemo drugs and help with the nausea.
On Wednesday (July 6), the doctors decided to admit her so she could receive continuous saline infusions and get treated with IV antibiotics for a fever she developed. At this point, she’s feeling markedly better, but we expect her to stay in the hospital until Sunday.
Althea, Bryan, Andrew, and Sylvia