Plans to resume chemo

On Monday April 6th I was given two different kinds of chemotherapy, Oxaliplatin by intravenous IV and Capecitabine as a two-week set of pills. I was also given a suite of supporting drugs (anti-nausea, etc.). I reacted badly to something, so after one week my doctor had me stop. Meanwhile, I still had the second week of chemo pills to take. So after a week of recuperation, I’m going to take my second week of chemo pills starting on Monday.

I’m pretty sure that my bad reaction was due to a steroid (Dexamethasone), that was given as part of the IV infusion. The purpose of the steroid was to keep me from having an allergic reaction to the Oxaliplatin.

Meanwhile, I expect to do ok with just the Capecitabine pills. And by “ok” I mean I think I will barely somehow manage to get through it. It won’t be fun. The Capecitabine makes me extremely nauseous. And I don’t think I react to the anti-nausea meds very well. So I fully expect to be puking all week next week.

But at least, with only one kind of chemo med, it should go better than the first week when I was on both kinds of chemo at once. That was a disaster.