ICE treatment round 1 day 3

 Day 3 of ICE and things are still going OK. I feel all right (not great). My blood counts are good (enough). I am still scheduled to get out of the hospital later today, yea! It will be nice to be home. It looks like I am going to keep this new pick line for the time being- they might need to do blood transfusions if my numbers do not behave so we are going to keep it in. It will require some home heath care to clean the dressings but it should not be a big deal, just makes showering a lot more complicated. I should also add that my INR number it at 4.7 (the blood thickness level) and that is too high, remember it needs to be between 2 and 3. They no not know why its so high but the thought is that chemo has just thrown things out of wack. We will just keep an eye on it along with all the other things.

The “next step” is to wait and watch my counts, then get me back in here to do this again as soon as possible. There is going to be a big drop in all my blood numbers over the next 3 days or so. The question will be how well my body can handle things and get me back in working order. I did not anticipate things getting worse, but the doc says its not over yet. The ICE takes a bit to get going, so we'll see. Even the hair loss (now inevitable) could be 4 weeks away. This will have an effect on my goal of getting back into the office to work next week (not sure what I was thinking). I am going to have to stay away from people and germs sooner than I expected. I should still be able to do work from home but we will see how I feel. I look forward to the distraction that work can provide from thinking and dealing with this cancer stuff, so I will do my best to get some work in as often as possible. Plus it helps to try and “stay in the loop” with the day to day stuff happening in the office.