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Platelets Too Low for Chemo

From Mathew’s Journal 
    5-1-2014

Today I am scheduled for a 1-day out-patient chemo. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous.
  - Last night I went to sleep.


                 Text to Allison
                 No chemo today
                 Platelets too low
                 Nxt week
                 Stomach measurement is down another 
                 2 inches.
                 New CT scan June 4th
                 Bilirubin .8!!
                 Sent May 1

                                                  Yay!
                                                   Rec’d May 1


Mathew’s Journal

Still doing scan at 12 weeks

Very few people actually get the 2 week.

More than 7 days, we might need to up down the I.E. **

 - No chemo, my platelets are too low.

5-7-2014

 - Been feeling too low to write in my journal.
Not sure what I would write about anyway.
 -Funny to think about faces and how they change.
Every day our faces are different.
 -My Mom criticized Kathleen’s dogs, but

she really shouldn’t.


** Dr. Reed had explained that if there is too much time between treatments because Mathew's body isn't recuperating, they start decreasing the chemo does. Later on, I would feel like we were always one step behind. That if we had decreased the previous time, Mathew would have been able to receive more treatments.




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