Interferon reboot: day 11 or day one again

It wasn’t as bad as the first day for sure, but I did have the chills/fever pattern. I was so worried about my liver function being low enough, I didn’t take any preventative Tylenol (as I had been the first two weeks), so I immediately felt the effects even as I was getting up from the infusion chair. And definitely on the way home in the car.

When I got home I took some Tylenol and Advil, and crawled into bed with all the covers and the heating pad. My muscles were on the threshold of contracting and doing the chills/shake thing that Bob told me about. But I didn’t go into shakes. I hugged the heating pad around my chest, slept off the chill for an hour and a half, and woke up sweating with a mild fever feeling. And hungry.

Following my Naturopath’s advice, I ate a lot, exercised a bit (15 minute walk), and am about to go meditate. I feel much more in control mentally. And, of course, I am control minded, shall we say. (Appending the work “freak” just seems unsavory in this context…)

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I am 30 year old Brooklynite who was diagnosed with Stage III Melanoma in February 2008. I started this blog after the first day of high dose Interferon chemotherapy in June 2008.

4 thoughts on “Interferon reboot: day 11 or day one again”

  1. I have perhaps the most random assignment ever for you.

    a) I need to know your ETD of PDX
    b) I need to know your head circumference

    I am glad you are exercising, no matter how shit-tastic (I made up that word) I feel, if I get outside even just to sit, or even just to walk up the driveway and back, I always feel a bit better… something about being able to feel the ground under my feet..

    I might also try those tapes you have; because god knows Im not sleeping much lately either.

    miss you!

  2. ha, i’m sitting here right now in a big fight with myself about whether or not to go exercise. so far I’m winning. And. i’m losing. i’ve decided that working on the machine is consuming me too much right now for exercise; and i need to use the focus and energy here while i have it. i can exercise later.

    but somehow there is a strange sense of punishment i think i’m giving myself (another voice in my head) for not getting outside. reading this and the comment makes me feel less of a freak (a word i will definitely use on my own post).

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