Well I went to Lab Corp this morning to do routine blood work before my herceptin treatment on Monday. The girl had a hard time finding a vein, to which she kept digging around in my arm to find one. This is after I already told her that my Dr has problems finding veins in my arms and they now have to put an IV in the back of my hand. Apparently she was not trained or comfortable in doing the hand IV, so she thought with her expertise she would be able to find a vein in my arm. Ha ! Well she did finally find a vein after about two minutes of moving the needle around over and over trying to hit a vein. I have so much scar tissue from previous IV's when I had to get blood work every week. Needless to say, she won't be getting a second chance on me again. By the time I got to work I had a huge knot and swelling in the area where she took blood and of course bruising.
I am curious to see if my platlets, white and red blood cell levels have started to come up. They have remined below normal even though I had my last chemo treatment on 10/13/11.
I will post results on Monday after my herceptin treatment.
Come on June, that will be my last herceptin treatment.
Have a nice weekend.
Sandy
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