Yesterday I did a lung function test again to see if my numbers dropped any further from the 88% on Monday. Guess what? My numbers went UP! I got a 100%! Yay me.
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| I get a gold star. |
“How is this possible?” you ask. Good question, you. The dangerous side-effect of Bleomycin is pulmonary fibrosis, and the damage is indeed irreversible. However, it seems that it doesn’t take much to throw off a diffusion capacity test (that’s what I had done) and I might have been suffering from a slight cold or something last Monday. This makes sense, since I ended up feeling so crappy later on in the day. My doctor explained that a drop from 109% to 88% really wouldn’t make much sense unless I was secretly a chain smoker who just wouldn’t ‘fess up (I’m not). The 100% that I got on Friday makes much more sense and is more in line with what would be expected.
So what does this mean? Well, for one thing I will continue getting Bleomycin every Monday. Instead of testing my lungs once every cycle, we’ll do it every week just to keep a close eye on things. And the best news is that if I keep getting Bleo, I won’t have to do a fourth round of chemo! Yaaay! This makes me happy. Lets cross our fingers and hope that I continue getting good scores on my tests.
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