As I mentioned before, we would be getting Labor day off. This means Karen's first injection this week wouldn't be until Wednesday. Despite the side effects diminishing with each injection, when Karen started the second cycle her first injection was nearly as bad as the very first. So I was a bit concerned that with Monday off - making it 5 days between injections - that Wednesday's injection would be tough on her as well. Unfortunately, that did turn out to be the case. Which also meant Friday's injection was a bit rough as well. And some of the symptoms, particularly the painful sensations from air blowing over her skin, seems to have come back Sunday evening. Even on Monday she seemed overly fatigued. Karen's bloodwork hasn't shown the same drop in white blood cell count we saw the first cycle. This is almost certainly due to the extra day off, and quite possibly tied to the severity of her symptoms.
We have bloodwork and a CAT scan scheduled for Friday, but we won't find out if the injections have been working until Monday. Since it's easier to cancel an appointment than to try and schedule one at the last minute, they've already got Karen scheduled for her third cycle of injections. While on chemotherapy we never got scheduled more than a week ahead of time, but we seem to be scheduled a whole month ahead while on clinical trials. I assume this is to make sure they don't miss a treatment due to scheduling, but it feels strange to click on your appointment list and see it scheduled out all the way through October 7th.
