Taking the Shots

One of the things I never thought about when beginning my treatments for Hodgkin Lymphoma was the number of shots I would be receiving.  During my first round of ABVD chemo treatments, I recall getting the flu shot along with two variations of the pneumococcal shot.   Half way through the treatment, I developed clots in my calf requiring a twice daily shot of lovenox in the stomach for 30 days.  

When I had my recurrence of Hodgkin, I was slated for a stem cell transplant.  After two rounds of ICE chemotherapy, I began a course of granix shots each day for about a week and a mozobil shot right before the stem cell harvesting process.  Once in the hospital, I received a lovenox shot each morning for about a week until my platelet numbers bottomed out.   

When the stem cell transplant process was over, and I was home for awhile, I received two shots of monoclonal antibodies followed weeks later by my first then a month later second covid shot.   Several months later, it was time to begin redoing all my immunizations.  I began in August with four shots - two in each arm.   In December, I received seven more immunization shots - four in one arm and three in the other arm.  According to my immunization schedule, there are still a number more shots to come.