Not right

• Visit to the ER at Barnes West County Hospital and a head CT

I was at home by myself this afternoon (alone really for the first time since my surgery) and my left arm and left leg fell asleep. First it was my leg. I thought maybe I had been sitting funny so I got up and walked around. No relief. Then 5 minutes later, my left arm fell asleep. Pins and needles, numbness, some weakness. Definitely not normal. I looked over my discharge papers and it mentions to call into the office about any numbness. When I speak to the PA in Dr. C's office, she recommends that Hector come home and take me to the local ER.

The ER doctor runs a head CT and everything looks fine on that. He seems convinced that everyone reacts differently to chemo and that it is from the chemo. But I haven't had chemo since March 22nd. And it has been more than a year since I have had the drug oxaliplatin, which is the drug that caused all of my numbness. But I'm tired and there's really nothing else to do... and they aren't worried. So we are sent home with a medicine for anxiety and something for muscle spams. Seriously. (I don't take either one.)

Last year, after the 10 rounds of oxaliplatin, I did have a lot of numbness in my hands and feet (not up my leg nor in my arm). Within a few months though, my hands felt pretty normal and my feet, while not totally normal, do feel better. But today's numbness was my foot AND my leg up to my knee, and my hand AND my arm up to my elbow. It was unnerving and is unnerving... as it still remains.