I had my Taxotere infusion Wednesday - and I'm not feeling any adverse effect such as nausea.
The next injection is due Nov 4th, so I guess if I'm going to see any hair loss or changes to finger / toe nails that may take some days.
My hemoglobin count came in at 8.2 (which btw being a calibration petty officer, I have to look it up and find this unit is supposed to be expressed as decagrams per deciliter (dag / dL), i.e. 8.2 = 82 grams of hemoglobin per deciliter of blood)
It is considered low if it's under 13.5 dag/dL, and concerning when it gets close to 8 dag/dL. So I was ordered to return yesterday to get 2 units of blood. Which I did. One way the that low hemoglobin (Hgb) count will show up is that my resting heart rate will be about 110 beats per minute.
They did not test my blood after the two units were added, but my resting heart rate fell to 86.
However, I am still feeling as short of breath today as I was yesterday morning. Sarah points out that since there are tumors seen on the head of my femurs, which are major blood producing bones, that I may have a chronic problem with low Hgb.
I do take a daily multivitamin, but there is no Iron supplementation in it, and I might want to add some, though I am getting regular food with high iron content . Surprisingly, though it's not on the Mayo Clinic's list, rice is also a high source noted on other lists. (I didn't like those other lists as they are very high in advertising content.)
I am at work today for a full day.
Weight 256.8 today
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