MUGA follow-up

It’s been a crazy week so I’m sorry for this belated follow-up to my visit with Dr. Richards on Monday.

As is the normal routine for each of these regular visits to Dr. Richards I had some blood taken and the counts were checked. Given that I didn’t have a neulasta injection with this treatment cycle I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. But all was fine with my white blood cell count at the bottom of the normal range and my hemoglobin and platelets also good.

We then changed gears and focused on the MUGA scan results as well as discussion about the remaining chemo treatments. Dr. Richards pointed out that the number reported by this latest MUGA was identical to the results from the MUGA in early February. Since I hadn’t seen a copy of this latest report I wasn’t aware of this and I’m obviously thrilled to now know that the epirubicin hasn’t had a negative impact on my heart. The down side of these positive results is that Dr. Richards wants to bring the epirubicin back into play for the remaining two chemo treatments. I attempted to lobby against this but when it came right down to it I realized I was being wimpy and given that there hasn’t been a physical impact to this point I know I need to suck it up and focus on kicking some cancer cell butt for just two more treatments.

Work has been crazy busy lately. That coupled with the excitement leading up to Sasha’s prom, which is tomorrow, and graduation, which is Friday June 19th, means that we’ve had little time to even think about chemo and it’s side affects. This is all goodness and really I haven’t been feeling that bad. Mostly just tired. Therefore, I was able to get out on the tandem with Bailey last weekend for a 21-mile ride. I felt just fine physically and mentally the ride was HUGE! I may even join the Mentschen for the first 20-25 miles of their scheduled 40-45 mile training ride this Sunday.