Chemo cancelled............

Why is it such a letdown, when you're already for the chemo poison to be slowly dripped into your body?  It's like you're all dressed up and no where to go.  Like you psyched yourself up for this mess to happen and then they take it away from you.  Like is this cancer going to get a jump start because you missed this session?  I can tell you it just does.  There is absolutely nothing wrong, just a precaution against worse things happening if they went ahead with the chemo.

Platelets were fine, white blood count was fine, Alk Phos was 108, remember that was the number that they wanted to see lower ( under 125 ).  All good right!!!!!!!  Well now they found this new number, they had been pointing it out on the blood work print outs for some time, but it was always good.

Neutrophils  normal 2.5 to 8 range, today it was 0.9.  It has been from 1.7 to over 5.5.  And, why are they important?

Since white blood cells, or neutrophils, are the body’s main defense against infection, neutropenia can lead to fevers and infections.

 more in a minute.

Now, I suppose you want to know what I did for that minute?  My honey had a very nice plate of nacho'es prepared and I needed to eat them while they were hot,  yum, yum, I'm full.

From another web site:

Chemotherapy can weaken your natural defenses

Chemotherapy (also known as chemo) works by killing fast-growing cancer cells. Unfortunately, chemotherapy drugs can't always tell the difference between cancer cells and fast-growing healthy cells, including red and white blood cells. As a result, one of the potential side effects of many types of chemotherapy drugs can be a low white blood cell count.¹ Chemo that causes this side effect is described as myelosuppressive (my-eh-low-suh-PRESS-iv), because it suppresses your production of white blood cells. A low number of a specific type of white blood cells called neutrophils—also known as neutropenia (new-tro-pee-nee-uh)—can put some patients at risk for infections and may interrupt chemo treatment.¹ In fact, complications associated with a low white blood cell count are the most common causes of dose reductions or delays in chemotherapy.² A sufficient white blood cell count may enable your doctors to administer chemotherapy according to their treatment schedule.

So it was just a precaution, I'm fine.  Just take 2 weeks of chemo off, and let the body rebuild itself.  My next appt with Onc. and chemo is Jan. 13th.

Happy New Year to all, God Bless you, Captain