Hi everyone,
Wondering if anyone out there has any similar experience or knows anything about this... this evening Jesper (my boyfriend who has liver and lung mets) coughed up a small amount of blood. He's never done that before. He had been coughing for a long time before Christmas, like a month or two, but for the past few weeks he hasn't coughed at all. The same thing happened last year when he started FOLFIRI - he'd been coughing a lot and then shortly after starting chemo it stopped completely. So I was thinking it probably was a sign that the FOLFOX is doing its job and shrinking the lung mets like FOLFIRI did.
I called the hospital and the nurse wasn't too worried and said it could be because his mucous membranes are dried up from the chemo and bleed more easily. He is also on Avastin so he bleeds more easily. Trying to calm myself down and tell myself that's what it is. I mean it would make sense, but when strange stuff happens I'm always worried about pulmonary embolisms and stuff like that.
Anyone know anything? We're in Hungary and don't get home till tomorrow and of course I'm stressing out. There is way too much excitement for me in this cancer life!!