Week 6 Day 1 (4th chemotherapy)

Today my Neutrophils level failed again, but I was still allowed to proceed with the chemotherapy.

As compared to the blood test result before 2nd chemotherapy on 27/04/09, which was one week after the 1st chemotherapy. My overall White Blood Cells level seems much better. 

	31/03/09	27/04/09	11/05/09	18/05/09	25/05/2009
Weight (Kg)	81.5	79.6	80.6	80.9	80.5
Haemoglobin [14.0 – 18.0]	16.3	14.8	14.7	14.9	14.6
WBC Count [4.0 – 10.0]	5.6	2.5	3.4	4.4	3.4
Platelet Count [140 – 440]	262	165	381	432	195
RBC Count [4.5 – 6.3]	5.37	4.86	4.88	4.91	4.74
Haematocrit [38.0 – 52.0] (%)	47.8	42.7	43.1	43.4	42
MCV [78.0 – 98.0]	88.9	87.9	88.5	88.5	88.7
MCH [27.0 – 32.0]	30.4	30.5	30.2	30.3	30.8
MCHC [32.0 – 36.0]	34.2	34.7	34.1	34.3	34.7
RBC Distribution Width [10.9 – 15.7] (%)	13.5	12.9	13.5	14.2	13.8
Mean Platelet Vol [6.3 – 10.1]	7.4	7.5	6.7	6.4	7.4
Neutrophil [40 – 75] (%)	50.8	42	40.6	37.8	39.5
Lymphocyte [15 – 41] (%)	37.3	48.4	45.5	40.5	50.4
Monocyte [2 – 10] (%)	4.8	3	6.8	13.1	4.8
Eosinophil [0 – 6] (%)	6.4	6	6.6	7.7	4.8
Basophil [0 – 1] (%)	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.9	0.5
Neutrophil Abs [2.0 – 7.5]	2.84	1.05	1.38	1.66	1.35
Lymphocyte Abs [1.0 – 3.0]	2.09	1.21	1.55	1.78	1.71
Monocyte Abs [0.2 – 0.8]	0.27	0.08	0.23	0.58	0.16
Eosinophil Abs [0.04 – 0.44]	0.36	0.15	0.22	0.34	0.16
Basophil Abs [0 – 0.1]	0.04	0.02	0.02	0.04	0.02

I was too bored during the chemotherapy, so I took some pics of the gadget to show you here.

This gadget is used to regulate the dripping rate of the drugs that flow into my body. Just need to key in the volume of the drug and the required dripping rate, then its screen will update the remaining time and drug volume in real time.

This is my hand, and the tubes are filled with colorless drugs. Looks like Frankenstein in the making huh?