Category Chemo
My Head is Full of Cotton Balls
The first bag drips into me, following a short path straight to my heart. It takes 3 hours to fill my head with cotton balls. The next four bags take four days to create a labyrinthine rubber band inside my body. I can smell and taste the construction. The rubber band stretches from my intestines to my […]
As Good As It Gets (here)
I’m on my last of four 24-hour infusions of my “miracle poison” (this stuff). By it’s nature, a hospital room, however nice, is not a great place to pass a holiday weekend…but, boy, did I have a lot of family and friends making it as good as it could be! Thanks to everyone for helping […]
Welcome to room 2154 at the Chateau Chemo
Here I am…waiting to start the drip. Didn’t get the corner room again, so only one window… 11:40am: the Rituxan drip begins. This is the good stuff. In a perfect world, the entire R-EPOCH regimen could be administered in about 4 days and 1 hour. It will probably be closer to 4 days plus 8 […]
You May Now Vacate The Premises! (or, how to remove the spots from a Dalmatian…)
First evidence: feeling better == getting better. I have received the results of the full-body PET scan I had Monday showing the difference from before I started chemo (now that 2 R-CHOP cycles are done). Here is an excerpt from the contrast-enhanced images (that show higher metabolic activity of cancer cells vs. normal cells) and […]
Shaken or Stirred?
Sorry I haven’t posted in a while – I’ve been feeling pretty much “normal” (really good, just get tired/achy by 6pm) and have been keeping busy! Nevertheless, with continued encouragement from Tracey (the Wonder Wife) to get additional medical advice, I have not become complacent. Just because I feel good doesn’t mean I’m cured… So, […]
drip, drip, drip…
Putting my power port to good use at the doc’s luxury chemo club. The last 2 days were encouraging – the original pains that led me to the hospital seem to be healing and the chemo pains became more manageable. After this round I should be able to differentiate between symptoms of the disease and […]
What’s In Duarte, anyway?
Yes, it was time for another opinion from…City of Hope. I guess not-much-news is good news, but there’s not much to say. They reviewed all the data and set me up with a doctor. What he had to say: I’m getting the right treatment…CHOP-R is universally prescribed for both High Grade Follicular and Diffuse Large […]
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