Difficult Weekend

The aftereffects of last Monday's treatment and the prednisone really got to me, especially this weekend. I had a lot of trouble with back and abdominal spasms, dizziness, headaches, and general weirdness. I'm finally starting to feel better. My nurse Ann said it might be a stronger Rituxan reaction because of the break I took. I think I'm reacting more strongly to the prednisone too. Yuck. But maybe that means it's working better.

My electrolytes were so off from the prednisone that I drank two bottle of Gatorade last night and this morning and it actually tasted good. That's really weird. Usually I can't drink that stuff at all because it tastes so salty to me. Didn't taste salty t all this time. Just like slightly sweetened water.

My muscles are still aching from all the cramping. I feel like I got beaten up from the inside out. I really hope I get some sleep tonight. I have slept more than a couple of hours a night for the past five or six nights. I think a hot bath and an early bedtime is in my very near future.

Here are today's blood counts:
WBC 14
HgB 13.9
Platelets down to 32 (the only real casualty of the treatment besides my aching body)