It's complicated!

I went to the doctor today while finishing the 3rd week off Afinitor due to my continuing to have greater weakness, itchiness, loss of sleep and coughing.  We're trying to time out the itchiness to heal after the week of Prednisone and weeks of cortisone cream.  The nurse practictioner is concluding that the weakness is due to my calcium being too high (11+) in my blood.  She proposed staying off one weak, giving me a monthly treatment for the calcium (a shot which may or may not be needed) and a transfusion (because my hemoglobin is 9+).  It's the morning after and I feel a bit better and not so disabled.  It should get a bit better for another day (on the transfusion) and for many days on the shot (actually just put into the transfusion IV).  We'll see!  Then I go in Monday to start Afinitor again.  Being off it, she explained, might make me worse in some days due to just having the tumors can cause many  problems like my coughing.