I’ve just met with my consultant and learnt that I’m
having retuximab today whenever it comes in and then (as I knew) Hydration
tonight – ALL night on a drip and collecting all my wee to test amounts and
acidity. Both of these treatments aim to prepare me for methotrexate tomorrow
which is short in itself but requires serious monitoring and lots of water and
kidneywork to get it out of my system. I was quite sure that I’d if I did
nothing but drink and wee for a few days then my Neutrophils would be high
enough to get out for a weekend with the girls but today the consultant was
fairly sure I would NOT be out for the weekend. He said hopefully by the
weekend after!
So the window between the midday retuximab and the
evening's prehydration is relatively small but its the last of my free time for
some time to come!
As it turned out there was no retuximab and no
explanation why not. Some misunderstanding somewhere meant I was waiting
for nothing. I had a good (although short) afternoon looking through second
hand shops nearby buying DVDs, headscarves and junk. Which was nice.
