Adcetris: The second cycle. Day 9

I spoke too soon! Over the last couple of days I've developed a slight stomach ache with the occasional sprint for the toilet. The headache has returned and the ringing in my ears is getting louder. I also feel kinda dull.. a bit like having a headache in your whole body.. it's hard to explain.

Oh and not only have I re-broken the rib on my right side after a really big cough last week, but on Saturday I was doing some repairs to Sarah's car, leaning on the seat and pulling on a bracket when a rib broke on my left side! The pain was indescribable! It now just feels like I have runners stitch, so not too bad.. I hardly notice it most of the time but if I move around in bed at night both ribs make clicking sensations.

I've also started myself on a course of synermox (penicillin) as I've had a lump come up on my jaw just below the left ear. It hurt for the first few days when it popped up two weeks ago and now it's painless. The side of my face is quite swollen and I'm looking a bit lop-sided. I've managed to get an appointment with my GP but that's still two days away on Friday afternoon. Hopefully it's just a blocked saliva gland and nothing nasty. Sometimes I feel like I make one step forward and go two steps back!

I've run low grade fevers for the first week of this cycle, they now appear to be declining. It's hard to tell for sure as I'm also taking paracetamol for the joint and muscle pain and that's masking the fevers.
There's no persistent cough still, however I do need to cough constantly to clear my chest of the considerable amount of phlegm that builds up. The itch is thankfully still gone.

Now that I no longer have to take medication in order to get to sleep, I'm falling asleep almost instantly and even when I wake during the night I fall back to sleep very quickly. ..Sooo good after several years of really crappy sleep, or being so knocked out by sleeping pills that half the next day is a write off.

I'm booked in with my GP for minor surgery next Tuesday. He's going to cut open the "thing" on my elbow and stitch it back together. It's actually closed up quite a bit in the last few weeks so I'm fairly sure it will heal up nicely once the scar tissue is removed.

Well that's about it.. all my aches and pains. Other than that I'm in really good shape and have been working both in the workshop and out and about.

I'll post an update after seeing the GP on Friday re lump on jaw.   ..Ron