Charting Side Effects and Dates Only (No stories)

Diagnosis - February 28 (Friday)

Surgery - Friday, March 13th

Treatment 1 - Friday, April 10th (Good Friday)
     Doxorubicin amp 120 mg, Cyclophosphamid amp 1200mg
     Day 1 - None
     Day 2, 3 - Teeth hurt, sharp pains in the ear (like an ice pick)
     Day 4,5 - Mild nausea if I don't eat
     Day 4-8 - Chemo Brain (forgetful, writing things down really helps)
     Day 8 - mild chills, tiredness
     Day 9 - extreme chills and shaking, major headache - I feel like i'm dying (not exaggerating)
Day 10 - Sunday - more chills, minor fever, headache
Day 11 - Monday - low grade fever - feeling bleh - no chills
Day 12 - Tuesday - actually feeling good today - then my hair started falling out - in unexpected places
Day 13 - Wednesday - feeling good - rough night (lots of pain where they took out the lymph nodes - Dr. Sermaxhaj is going to have the surgeon come take a look at it when I come in for round 2)

Day 14-18   mild fatigue

Day 19 - Tuesday - head hair starts falling out rapidly

Day 21 - Friday - my pillow looks like a dog bed.  chemo moved to Monday due to today being a holiday

Treatment 2 - Monday, May 4th
     Doxorubicin amp 120 mg, Cyclophosphamid amp 1200mg
Day 1 (treatment day) - mild nausea, fatigue, frequent urination
Day 2  (Tuesday, 5/5) - nausea, fatigue, extreme sleeplessness (steroids?), frequent urination
Day 3 (Wedneday, 5/6) - nausea (even though still on anti-nausea meds and steroids), fatigue (from not sleeping), eating cautiously
Day 4 (Thursday, 5/7) - last day of anti-nausea meds and steroids, teeth pain, nausea, constipation, cranky, tired
Day 5 (Friday, 5/8) - horrible nausea, fatigue, constipation, begging for the sweet release of death
Day 6 (Saturday, 5/9) - slept 12 hours - feeling a ton better on all fronts
Day 7 (Sunday, 5/10) - slept 12 hours - feeling good