I was getting my oxaliplatin infusion yesterday. When I got up to use the restroom my oncology nurse stopped me because she noticed my face was beet red.
The called the doc right away and he determined that I had developed an allergy to the oxaliplatin. Strange, eh! He sad that it is not unknown for people to develop an allerge when they have been off it a couple months as I was.
So the immediately stopped the chemo and started me on Benadryl, flushed the tubes, and sent me home to sleep it off.
Unfortunately this means that I have to start a new chemo (next week, probably), and the new chemo will make me lose my hair.
I’m pretty bummed about losing my hair, although then I will look like a “real” cancer patient, haha!