Battling a Cold after Chemo

I’ve been battling a cold these past couple of days. Yesterday I spent the day in bed, with absolutely no energy to do anything at all. My temperature kept rising. At 100.5 I’m supposed to go to the hospital. I made it to 100.4 before it started going down.

I called NWCS and the nurse there had the doctor call in a prescription for antibiotics and cough syrup. With my recent bouts with bowel inflammation, antibiotics didn’t seem to be the best route. I called Lysanji Edson, my homeopathic physician, who advised me to take herbs. She also gave me a remedy. Although I felt really awful, I was still on the verge of getting ill and not really into a full-fledged illness. The interesting thing to me was that I stopped getting hot flashes as I felt worse.

I woke up this morning feeling better. I went downstairs for breakfast, which was a major improvement. Yesterday I had very little appetite. David came home in the middle of the day to feed me soup, but I wouldn’t have bothered to eat if he hadn’t done that.

I’m still coughing, I’m still tired, but I feel like I will survive this. I was really nervous that this might put me in the hospital again. A simple cold can easily evolve into pneumonia when one's immune system is as compromised as mine is at the moment. I knew I was getting better when I had a mild hot flash this morning. It’s so strange, to be actually welcoming hot flashes as a sign of returning health.