Day 21 and 1st Course stats

Today is the last day of the first course and tomorrow morning, I am back in treatment. There have been days that were better then I expected and a couple that have been worse. Although it's nice going in knowing what the week will be like, it not something you look forward too.

I've kept track of a lot of things over the past 21 days and here are some of the numbers:

Medication taken (not counting anything given at chemo):

• Tylenol: 12 pills
• Tums: 10 chewable tablets
• Tylenol SS: 18 pills (OTC sleep aid)
• Ativan: 1 pill (to help sleep - it didn't work)
• Compazine: 5 pills (anti nausea)
• Senokot: 5 pills (laxative)
• Protonix: 1 pill (Used for acid reflux)

Dr. Visits:

• 9 - Visits to Dr. Reznick's office (During 15 working day course)
• 1 - visit to the ER
• 1 - CT Scan of chest
• 1 - Echo cardiograph
• 9 - needle pokes for blood

Miscellaneous numbers:

• 6 - Number of days I made it to the office
• 1 - Times blacked out and hit head on nightstand
• 42 - Number of DVD's in Ultimate James Bond Collection
• 46 - Number of DVD's in my "personal" collection after receiving Bond dvds
• 10 - Number of books I have received
• 2 - number of times I threw up
• 5 - Hours we spent in ER
• 1 - times my temperature went above 100.5
• 1 - Wahl hair trimmer purchased
• 60 - average Blog visitors a day
• 21 - days I have not felt normal
• 2 - Bleomycin treatments received before Dr stopped giving me drug for fear of long term breathing problems.
• 63 - days of "treatment" left

Here is a photo taken on Thanksgiving of the family.