Andres @ 08:32 (yesterday)
greetings! how’s it going ?
Ken @ 11:52 (today)
When I got your message yesterday, I was bent over the toilet, crippled in pain. Pretty much summed up my morning yesterday. Colitis is wrecking me yesterday and today. Getting by with the help of Lomotil and Oxycodone by day, and Morphine by night.
All my numbers dropped a tad more, so back to transfusions and bone marrow stimulants. Kaiser and Johns Hopkins still intend to give six vaccinations tomorrow morning to restart my immunization history and system. I have every vaccination from birth to adulthood to catch up on, so effectively 16 months of vaccinations beginning tomorrow.
Never had the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccination before. I was already in my 40’s when the vaccine was made public, so little need. Now that “I’ve been reborn”, I get to have the HPV vaccination so I don’t incidentally get it from others.
Andres @ 12:46 (today)
*nods * sorry about your pain
and your lowered numbers
good luck with the vaccinations!
Ken @ 12:48 (today)
No idea what to expect, but it made for an interesting conversation with my oncology doc. Previously, I had reactions to Yellow Fever and a couple other vaccinations as a kid (not all I could remember). I asked if I should expect the same beginning tomorrow. She told me “I have no idea. You don’t have the immune system you were born with. It’s all new. You may have no reactions. You have may all new reactions you never had.”
Comforting. 😒
I am expecting some reaction, if only the “under the weather” misery and discomfort one gets from some vaccinations as the immune system and body ramps up to fight it. I already asked for Tylenol and Oxycodone tomorrow. I may not be online much, or at all.
Hey Ken, can you take ginger? Do you think it might help with some of your symptoms?
Aunt Jane:
I can, but over the past two years I have a negative association with ginger and nausea/vomiting. Over the past two years, I’ve been using a lot of ginger candies and chews. One time when I had a particularly unpleasant vomiting session, ginger did little to ease it, but I associated the scent and taste of ginger with abdominal cramps, convulsions, and vomiting.
I’m far more cautious with ginger ale and ginger candies / chews now. Most of the time, I need to find other ways to ease nausea besides ginger. 😥
~ Ken