Medical Update 3

     Hey everyone! This is the update I promised a while ago. I’ve officially been discharged from 5 weeks of hospital stay 3 days ago. Let me bring you up to date on what has happened in the past 5 weeks and where I am now.

    I was first brought into the ER at the Ottawa General Hospital with a fever and a resting heart rate of over 150 (normal for my age range is around 60-70). I was immediately admitted with the fear that I had some type of infection that my body could not fight off. A few days into the hospital stay, my heart started beating extremely fast (above the 200’s) which is called tachycardia. That was frightening because doctors and specialists from the intensive care unit were called to my room for assessment and treatment. After numerous tests and scans, it was determined that everything looked okay (thank goodness). Not long after, my body decided it was a good idea to go unconscious while the nurse was flushing my port. This caused another uproar on the oncology floor, and yes the intensive care unit team was called again. Now again, they could not figure out what happened, so decided to keep me for further observations. Anyways, I ended up getting a week of radiation for pain and switched to a new line of chemo. The cancer has grown and I am a lot weaker than before.

     Currently, I’m in a lot of pain constantly and have to take the injectable dilaudid quite frequently. Under these circumstances, my doctors usually won’t let me out of the hospital but after my constant nagging and begging, they send me home with enough drugs to start a pretty legit drug company haha. Right now, I’m hoping that the new chemo drugs that I’m starting next week will contain the cancer and help with the pain. Obviously things could be better, but I also realize that my one year cancerversary is coming up and I am very proud to have made it through this year and hopefully I’ll have the chance to celebrate many more years to come! That's it for now! Thanks for reading :)