


Well, at least one thing is positive. My mustache has started to grow again. Not my hair only my moustache.
Det märktes att medicineringen var mycket starkare, men det blev ändå inte så hemska biverkningar. Ordentlligt groggy blev man och det kändes som jag ätit rå chilli. När jag vaknade på morgonen kändes allt nästan som vanligt dock.
Min stackars rumsgranne (kändisen fick åka hem och en ny kom in på eftermiddagen), bad att få byta rum under natten. Groggy och utslagen hade jag självklart börja snarka så föntren skallrade. Jag hade erbjudit honom mina öronproppar tidigare på dagen, eftersom jag misstänkte att det kunde hända. Jag fick riktigt dåligt samvete. Ska nog erbjuda mig att bli utkörd på natten istället (om de inte ger mig mitt isoleringsrum).
Idag (3e dagen) vaknade jag till vi 05.30 och var rätt pigg. Nu har man kört igång andra omgången cellgifter och det tar några timmar, men jag räknar att vara klar till 09.00. För övrigt tror jag inte så mycket mer händer förrän nästa kur 18.00. Samtidigt så tar det 3-4 timmar efter kuren innan man kommer ur den värsta dimman och blir normal igen.
Patientjournaler
Jag hittade en lista över guldkorn från patientjorunaler. Läkare har det lite stressigt oftast och har väl inte alltid en språklig begåvning.
English version
The second day in hospital, there was a lot of waiting, as usual. It started with the doctors (her in Karolinska there is usually a team of doctors doing the round) not knowing what pre-medication I should have, so they had to wait for the department doctor to come back. Next they said that my chemo session would not start in the morning as planned but probably around 2 pm. Then, when they understood that I should have my chemo every 12 hours, the moved it to 6 pm. So, at 6 pm it all started.
It was obvious that the stuff was much stronger than usual, but still it was not as awful as expected. Apart from getting chemo brain, one of the medicines gave me a stinging feeling of the tongue, almost as I had been eating ray chill.
When I woke up in the morning, all that was gone. However, next session started at 6 am.
My poor room mate (the celebrity had gone home during the day, and a new patient arrived in the afternoon), had asked to change room in the middle of the night because of my snoring. I was not really surprised based on how I felt when I went to bed. Still, I had a really bad conscience and apologized when he came back in the morning. Hopefully I will get my single room soon, at least for the sake of my room mate and potential future room mates.
Today (the 3rd day) I woke up at 5.30 am and felt pretty ok. Now I am in the middle of the second round of chemo and it will take probably until 9 am, before that is finished. I do not expect that much more happening today until the next chemo at 6 pm. It takes 3-4 hours after the chemo to get “sober” again, so the afternoon might be ok.
I found a list of funny statements from real patient records. They are probably written by a stressed out doctor or just a doctor lacking basic writing skills. Now it is pretty difficult to translate these, so I have just taken a small selection.