Woke up feeling quite good this morning. Pain mildly controlled, but still there. Had a great night’s sleep. Woke up often, but not too often, maybe once every 1-2 hours. Eating is going awesome with John’s help. No nausea at all. I have a tremendous amount of saliva production, but it’s not as thick as before and that’s rather easier to spit out. My mouth is a complete mess. I can’t brush my teeth anymore. Since I wasn’t able to take care of it with my rinses while I was in the hospital, it’s just one big sore and I have cold sores on my lips. The Biotene rinse now feels like heaven, so that’s my “go to” rinse. I was able to drink some Sprite today, so definitely improving.
Radiation got cancelled because the machine is broken today, so now my last radiation is tentatively Wednesday of next week. Went in for chemo. Dr. Trillo is a bit concerned about my mouth, so he gave me an antiviral for the herpes sores, and an antifungal for my mouth as well. Maybe if the sores heal a little I’ll feel better. He wasn’t much concerned about the rest of the stuff and actually said it was a good thing I got a blood transfusion. Who would have thunk it? Chemo went great. Tamara drew blood from my port and for once it went super smoothly. It’s like the Powers-that-be knew that today, I was going to have a hard time tolerating a vein stick. The rest was cake as usual and everyone was quite happy to see me on my feet. 🙂