My cancer diary:
Friday - April 6, 2001
[total: day 61][chemo-cycle 2: day 17]

"I have slept quite well. I feel safe at this department: A lot of nice and helpful nurses and assistants.

In the morning I get another injection of Neupogen. The morning round also decides to give the Bleomycin today which I soon get.
Thank God there are no signs of nausea during the day. It's just Bleomycin, not Cisplatin.

As promised the dietician arrives in the early afternoon. A young lady who is used to people with side effects of chemotherapy. She explains that I could eat a la carte and presents a paper with around twenty different meal proposals. I quickly learn that staying in a hospital can also mean caring for you. I tell her about my problems to swallow and she proposes some light meals that can easily be swallowed. We make a plan for the next five breakfasts, lunches and dinners. That's good news.

Somewhen in the evening I must have made a wrong move. My back hurts like hell. I have caught a lumbago. Great. Really great. Now I can hardly move at all.

I ask for pain-killers and get some. After the second one I am able to find some sleep."

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