Liver Function Too High

over here, i had a small setback.  my liver function test was too high. Last week it was 160, this week it was 317, “normal” is 10-40, but on Interferon it is kosher to go up to 200.  so they gave me the IV for the fluid, but are holding me for a week for the Interferon.  i have to wait a week then if my liver function is back in the acceptable range i will continue.  i have been told this is is quite common.  so i’m not worried.  i was hoping that i would be done sooner than later, but that is hopefully all this means.

stopping in the middle or modifying in some way is more normal than not.  my understanding is that it does not compromise effectiveness.  and when i made my ticket, they made me budget in an extra week “in case.”

So now the weird thing is that I am maybe going to feel okay this week.  I say maybe, b/c who knows, as my weekends were worse than my weeks.  That said, I do feel better this evening than I have for a while.

Sadly, it will probably make going back next Monday even harder.

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I am 30 year old Brooklynite who was diagnosed with Stage III Melanoma in February 2008. I started this blog after the first day of high dose Interferon chemotherapy in June 2008.

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  1. oh well, my visit will be less celebratory but that’s OK. I think I figured out how to get to your house by public transportation! (I’m such a nerd re travel.) I hope it isn’t 104 anymore. Jeez. & I hope you don’t have to go back to NYC feeling miserable. Maybe you need an extra extra week??

    This will be good for you, truly, to have a week off. I know how much you like to go whole hog and damage yourself for the sake of whatever it is, but slow has merit too. Have some Bergson:

    “Our body is nothing but that part of our representation which is ever being born again, the part always present, or rather than which, at each moment, is just past. Itself an image, the body cannot store up images, since it forms a part of the images, and this is why it is a chimerical enterprise to seek to localize past or even present perceptions in the brain: they are not in it; it is the brain that is in them. But this special image which persists in the midst of the others, and which I call my body, constitutes at every moment, a section of the universal becoming. It is then the place of passage of the movements received and thrown back, a hyphen, a connecting link between the things which act upon me and the things upon which I act.”
    from Matter and Memory…

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