When we go off for a lengthly period of time, I usually remember to take my pills with me in a pill box color coded by day. Today is Tuesday. Tuesday's box is blue. Blue is the worst color that I can wear. You will soon see that it may be appropriate.
We left at 8:20 to see if I could get the chiropractor to fit me in. My chemo brain showed itself to be in full operation. We arrived just after 9:00 to discover that the office was closed as it is every Tuesday. Duh.
I tried to call Dr. Fady's cell phone with no answer. I then called his brother who is also a chiropractor. He was not eager to treat me without knowing much about my case. We had driven down toward his office only to find the news. I was in bad shape and this set back drove me to tears.
As we drove back toward the cancer center, I got confirmation that my Dr. Fady would come in to see me at 2:30. I was delighted.
The chemo went fine. We then went off to see Dr. Fady.
The good news is that my rib is not causing me a problem. The bad news is that the pain was caused by shingles.
Great a new challenge. It is a unilateral case meaning it tracks a nerve from my right back around to my right chest. Given that it is contagious, perhaps women will stop asking to look at my port.
To be most effective, treatment should start immediately. By the time that I got a call back from the cancer center, we were almost home and they wanted to see the blisters et cetera that had just formed this morning. We decided to go to the local Baycare clinic and had the diagnosis confirmed.
As a result, I now have another horse pill to take three times a day.
The research manager noted as we left with the medication that it we only had one thing to worry about this weekend - the hurricane. I laughed as I held my new pills and remembed Sunday's blog.. But, we are ready. We have meds. We are upping the lypo-spheric vitamin C. btw - we also have lots of water. In a few weeks, I will be as good as old!
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