Friday, 17 December 2010

Slightly Anemic

I had outpatients today and my fev1 is still 46% so I'm happy about that. I've been put on some iron tablets as I'm slightly anemic, apparently they might make my stools black, nice....! I looked what anemia causes and it says it can cause fatigue and weakness, both of which I often get but I assumed it was just the side affects of medication, low blood sugars or just infection. It still could be these but maybe lack of iron isn't helping! I also have to leave 6 weeks instead of 4 weeks between my month on of voriconazole, as they are worried I will become resistant to it and apparently all anti-fungals are from the same family so if the fungus builds resistance to one it can become resistant to all of them. My weight is 54.4 kg, so all in all a good outpatients appointment. I had my port flushed and it even bled back, its seems to have bled back the last few times, so maybe it's finally starting to behave!

I'm really enjoying the yoga classes on a Friday now, they now do two classes back to back as demand was too high for just one class. This means that now there is less than 10 people in the class I go to, so the teacher gives us more attention and keeps saying I'm good at stuff which obviously is good reinforcement to keep me going back! I'm starting to build some strength in my upper arms now and starting to get some muscles haha!

1 comment:

Gemma's mum said...

All good stuff, it's nice to hear x