Antibiotics and Antiemetics

Sadly, I was just watching the jump-rope championships, so I decided to update my blog. I guess I came down with a cold in Dallas. It was probably a virus, and I'll spare you the details, but the color of the special sauce in my nose, ears, and chest is indicating that we might also have a little bacterial infection developing. So, my oncologist has added antibiotics to my list of drugs to make sure I won't get a fever and an out-of-control infection within my face if my blood counts go down. I had a blood draw yesterday and my counts were really good, so they think they won't even go down that much. I have mostly stopped taking my narcotics because my hip pain is way down, but I am still taking some antiemetics (that is the cool way to describe drugs that stop you from puking). My doc is pretty sure he has worked it out with my health insurance to give me an expensive antiemetic called Emend for next round of chemo because I had such a bad time of my first chemo. They had to try out the cheap stuff on me first. My doc also said I should not go coach in Reno this weekend. MRI of my back is scheduled for next Thursday, after that I will meet with a very reputable lymphoma doc at stanford that will help provide a second opinion to my already good oncologist. They say that the milk dud in my back is probably nothing. Now I just need to rest this cold out with my signature toilet paper shoved up my nose.