The 3rd. and the 4th week everything went as planned, every Friday she had chemo and there weren't any problems.
The 5ft. week the blood count were all massed up so, instead of chemo, she had a liquid and a blood transfusion hoping for a rise in white blood cells within the next week.
by the way...
You all probably know that is very easy to get sick during chemo therapy and is very important not to get sick... well, for the first time in 7/8 years I get sick with a thing worst than a normal cold (tonsillitis or something like that) which I passed to my brother, which passed in a few days.
Fortunately mom didn't get it.
The following Friday again...white blood cells didn't increase as hoped so chemo was postponed again; At list liquids weren't needed anymore because the kidneys were working normally.
Chemo was now scheduled once every 3 weeks and since the white blood cells didn't seem willing to increase the doctor decided to force them with a series of injections.
This practice consist in injecting a substance in the muscles which should stimulate the bone marrow to produce more white cells.
Unfortunately those injections cause constant bone pain so mom was unable to move.
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