Had the pump removed today and it was a relatively uneventful event.
Generally feeling well today but I got heaps of hiccups. Blood glucose level did not spike too much as the doctor had reduced the oral anti-nausea medication and one of them is a steroid that causes the spike. My stomach is growling a fair bit but trying to control intake of food so that the blood sugar do not spike too much and to slow down or halt the weight gain.
Just read an article on BBC news that says that taking anti-oxidant supplements like Vitamin A, C or E while undergoing chemotherapy may actually prevent the chemotherapy drug from doing its job. When a person is healthy, taking anti-oxidant supplements is useful in neutralizing free-radicals in our body. Some chemotherapy drugs are free-radical based and so taking anti-oxidant supplements will neutralize the chemotherapy drugs and prevent the drugs from doing its job. Kind of logical but there is no concrete data on it yet.
Anyway, God has been good. The one extra week of rest I think did good and allowed me to tolerate the chemotherapy’s side effects better.
In God We Trust
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