Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Lisa did well the day after her bronchoscopy procedure, but she has been feeling poorly yesterday and today, running a slight fever and very easily winded with a high heart rate and getting tired, having to sleep part of the day.  This afternoon's pre-chemo blood tests show why:  Lisa is even more anemic then before, and other elements of her blood chemistry are also not as they should be.  This is almost certainly because the cancer is becoming active again since she's been off of treatment for five weeks.  She did have chemo today, and will go through two "cycles" before her next PET/CT scan.  Two cycles  are two consecutive weeks of treatment, two weeks off, and then another two consecutive weeks of treatment.  The PET/CT scan will two weeks after the treatments.

As is usually the case, Lisa went right to bed and to sleep after we got home from chemo early this evening.