[Reflection] ⑯ Changes that occurred in my body (A new dawn)

I always borrow wonderful photos or illustrations for my headers, and for some reason, I always end up choosing a sunset. But this time, I chose a dawn.

Continuing from last time ↓

◈ The end of the drug eruption hell

The hellish 'drug eruption' gradually got better by properly using medication (ﾉﾟ∀ﾟ)ﾉ
First of all, since we made a promise to prioritize curing the drug eruption, the prescription was quite something.All-in on the itching lol

First, oral steroids (Prednisolone), stomach medicine (Takecab), topical steroids (Antebate), then antihistamines (Zeslan), anti-allergy medication (Rupafin), and since I couldn't sleep due to the itching, sleeping pills (Dayvigo)

Since I take steroids in the morning, 3 tablets of 5mg3 tablets + Takecab, Zeslan, and combined with the other medicines I always take, how many pills do I have to take in the morning?! is what I thought lol

As for the night, for the first time taking sleeping pill Dayvigo, hello there ( ｀・ω・´)ﾉ
I tried taking it for the first time (along with Rupafin, which has drowsiness as a side effect), but in the end, I woke up in the middle of the night due to the itching lol

Itching is terrifying!! It might be more troublesome than pain, itching is!! (There are people who understand this, right! Right! (｀・ω・)人(・ω・´))
Even with all this focus on the itching, for a while

I would wake up in the middle of the night, and the task of tying ice packs to the itchy areas continued. Naturally, I was friends with ice packs during the day too.However, it definitely got better step by step, and when it reached a point where it was mostly unnoticeable,

I noticed changes in my own body.

◈ Changes that occurred in my body

I ended up talking only about the drug eruption (because it was painful, you know...)
Actually, it seems the first round of chemotherapy, the 'combination of anticancer drugs and immune checkpoint inhibitors,' was very effective in my case, and by the time the drug eruption disappeared, the tumor was almost gone to the touch.
My stomach, which had grown so much that it interfered with my daily life... is flat! And that was after just the first round.

After the first round of chemotherapy, when I was emergency hospitalized with bacteremia, I had terrible fevers every day, and towards the end, it was like, with the nurses, 'Well, if it goes over 38°C, let's take Loxonin, shall we?' lol No, it was light, very light ww

It was so normal to have a fever that it was a bit dangerous if it went over 39°C, and since I wouldn't be able to eat if I had a fever at mealtime, I would think, 'I'll take Loxonin now'🎵 and I was controlling my fever lol

That much fever stopped happening before I knew it!
(I was so distracted by the drug eruption that I don't know the detailed sequence of events here (。´Д⊂))

◈ A total war between 'cancer' and 'me' has broken out?!

But in the end, I think this drug eruption is 'proof that the anticancer drugs and my immune system fought against the cancer'. The drug eruption that first appeared along my lymph nodes, and the fact that I was attacked by bacteria afterwards, weren't those because my immune system and the strong enemy called 'cancer' had a
total war?Maybe the immune system was all out fighting the cancer, and bacteria got in during that gap? ← I don't know though.
Of course, I don't know much about it medically, but I can't help but think that way.

As far as the PET-CT results go, the cancer has already metastasized to lymph nodes all over my body. (Surprisingly, the lymph nodes in my armpits were fine. It's really hard to understand.)
For now, there is no distant metastasis to any organs, though...

Sometimes, mistakes occur during DNA copying that accompanies cell division.
However,in the case of a normal, healthy person,it can be"mismatch repair genes"thatrepairthose mistakes.

However, in the case of people withLynch syndrome,themismatch repair gene mutationprevents themismatch repair mechanism from working properly.Because of this, copying errors keep increasing, leading to the development of "cancer."

Just because there's no one watching over you, you think you can do whatever you want in someone's body, you cancer jerk! ヽ(#ﾟДﾟ)ﾉ

But looking at the PET images, I realized that before the treatment, my immune system was desperately fighting the cancer in my lymph nodes (which are like checkpoints in a way).
That's why I had such a high fever...

"Reinforcements are coming soon, so hang in there until then!! (｀･ω･´)ゞ"That's what I thought as I started the treatment.

But when the reinforcements arrived, they must have been surprised, and it was probablya total chaotic mess(ﾉﾟ∀ﾟ)ﾉ
"Hey, is that guy cancer?! Σ(´Д｀ ) Hurry up and call the T-cells!!"or something like that, and the anticancer drugs probably went on a rampage, dragging everything around the cancer with them (well, I don't really know, but that's the image I have lol).
Anyway, I imagine it was a huge commotion inside my body... imagining that makes me a little excited (*ﾉ∀｀*)

I think that might have manifested in my case as a "drug eruption".
(I don't know for sure medically, though...)

◈ On to the second round of anticancer drugs...

Anyway, just as the drug eruption was subsiding, the time for the second round of anticancer treatment arrived.
I made it just in time...Phew ( ；∀；)
I hope I don't get a drug eruption this time 🙏
I'm really nervous... but the doctor might be feeling the same way.
But I have to believe in the words that we are thinking of the best method, and I have to trust the doctor and do my best (`･ω･´)
To be safe, I've scheduled a one-week hospital stay instead of the usual three-day, two-night stay.
Here I go! I will face it head-on!! (｀･ω･´)ゞ

To the next story

Thank you for reading this far.

Maybe it's the recent weather, but my brain isn't working very well (← that's always, right lol).
Also, I'm worried about whether I'll be able to have my third anticancer treatment next week (even though there's nothing I can do about it even if I think about it).

Well, I'll try to take it easy and not rush. I'd be happy if you could drop by occasionally!

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