Bleomycin

Bleomycin is the B in ABVD, which are the four chemotherapy drugs that I have been getting. This stuff can cause lung damage, so I got a pulmonary test before starting, and another one just 3 weeks ago. Well, the results are in, it seems that my gas uptake is not as good as the first test, so I have been taken off the Bleomycin. Now I just get AVD.

I guess this is good and bad. Bad because that's one less drug to help rid me of my 4 little friends in my chest. But it's also good because hopefully I will have avoided permanent lung damage. Well, just gotta take what I can get.

On a plus side, instead of gaining 3 pounds as usual, I lost a pound! And my blood pressure went down by 15 points. So that's nice, it's almost back to pre chemo levels. Oh, and the best thing, insurance is now covering Emend, it's lovely anti nausea medicine, which I sooo need.