Saba Beats Cancer

Finally the methotrexate level is 0.09 - just below the 0.10 limit so that would mean I get to go home. And the creatinine went down just a little as well. The kidney doc did come by last night and basically because I was peeing a lot and all my other kidney levels were good - it showed my kidneys are working ok and since the creatinine seemed to have plateaued, that was a good sign. So she was in favor of just waiting and seeing.  She would not advise me doing another methotrexate run any time soon (yeah - definitely not). I asked about the R-EPOCH and she is going to look and see if something might need to be adjusted there as well. So I should be able to finally go home today.  The docs haven't made their rounds yet with the new numbers so I am just waiting for them to come by.  Was really tired yesterday and got a lot of sleep - which is normal at this stage after the MTX.  Also got a few mouth sores - not near as bad yet as the last time so still battling th...

Damn  -stuck another night because of my kidney numbers.  My cratinine will not budget off 1.89 and the damn methotrexate is still at 0.2 and needs to be at 0.1.  At 72 hours I have always been at 0.08 every single time - until now.  Now it decides to just sit in my system wreaking havoc. I thought the leucovorin was helping flush it out - but a quick googly search reveals that leucovorin actually just counteracts the effects of methotrexate. The only flush is the constant bag of saline that is pumped into my 24/7 causing me to pee every 90 minutes.  Which is good - but not helping as much as it should.  A kidney specialist is supposed to take a look today. To what end I don't know - he will say the same thing.  Tomorrow. Shit. Asked about how this might affect the last R-EPOCH and right now they say it will not. He actually said I could stay right through Tuesday - I said, kill me now, please.  So that's where we are - the build up of tox...

So right now it doesn't matter of the methotrexate clears - they are keeping me in the hospital until my kidneys recover which will be tomorrow.  An extra day in the hospital. Just what I love.  And my white counts are so low, I am not going walking today - really don't want to catch anything. The up and downs of the chemo life. But it is the first time I have had to stay in the hospital - so I will take that as an overall win. And hopefully I can still stay on track with the last chemo session.  We will see. I get my last MTX test here shortly - hopefully that shows it's gone so I don't need anymore of those chemicals and we can just focus on getting my kidneys better. Yay.