Picked up 7 Levaquin pills (one 750mg a day) and took one Wednesday after my aborted chemo treatment. Next day took the bottle to work, along with a bottle containing various daily pills (multivitamin, calcium, etc.). Thursday afternoon took my daily pill. When I got home I grabbed a pill bottle out of my briefcase thinking I was swallowing my multivitamin, calcium, etc. With 2 left I realized all were the same size. Oops. I had taken 3 Levaquin which meant I had taken 4 of the 7 on one day. Damn. Worried I would OD on antibiotics, I couldn't sleep that night. Didn't take one Friday, but took the remaining two on Saturday and Sunday. Monday I called Nurse Terri to confess my stupidity and ask what I should do. Do you have a rash? No. Are your kidneys still functioning? Yes. Any temperature? No. I must have a cast-iron stomach.
Went to the port surgeon this morning. He told me the "gunk" that came out of my lateral lumen which they cultured didn't grow anything. So I shocked my entire system and didn't have an infection after all. Am headed to chemo Thursday. Nurses will access both lumens of my port and, hopefully, both will have good blood return. If the port causes any more trouble, surgeon will take me back into surgery, take out the right port and put in a new port on my left side. We'll see.
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