This should be Week 1, Round 3 but the labs I did a week ago came back with a low Platelet count (only 48) and they need to be above 100
On the one hand I was disappointed. This means that instead of being done on December 14, I won't be do…
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This was my 'off' week and I was expecting a similar bounce back to what I saw in Week 3, Round 1 but that didn't happen.
My off week didn't start until Tuesday so I've only got 6…
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Another rough week. The nausea has been pretty bad the last few days. I had to take Friday afternoon off because of how bad I felt. Spent most of the time since then basically resting / sleeping it seems. I'm working hard to try and figure out wh…
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Holy shit, do I feel not great. I had my infusion on Tuesday (delayed by 1 day because of the holiday). I felt fine on Tuesday. Wednesday I got a little tired, but part of that was due to in person meetings in Palm Springs all afternoon. By the e…
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This is my 'off' week so I'm feeling much better. No 1500 mg of Xeloda 2 times a day which has been fantastic! I'm eating and sleeping better. I'm also not nearly as tired, which is also really nice. That doesn't mean I'm not still going to be SU…
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It was a tough week. Both on the cancer front and the work front. Some difficult decisions were made and I basically haven't slept well since Monday night. And even that wasn't a great night's sleep.
I think I'm adjusting to the chemo well …
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A week ago Monday I started my chemo regimen. This time it's a 3 week course for 6 times. I start with an infusion on Monday, which takes about 4 - 5 hours. For the first 14 days I take oral chemo 2 times a day. I then have 7 days off. Then I sta…
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I had initially been set to start my chemo last Wednesday. In looking at my work calendar Wednesday's weren't really going to work out so I asked to have it rescheduled. I couldn't do it on Monday the 10th because I had an MRI and doing both of t…
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One of the things that has been challenging with all of this has been the specter of the tumor and not knowing what was going to happen with it. When I got the news that there was no cancer in the polyp, and my cancer markers were absent a deep p…
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I still don't have a firm date on when the chemo will start so I'm trying to do as much stuff as I can before I have to live like it's 2020 again. Last weekend the MST crew came over for grilling, and baseball watching, and just hanging out. I wa…
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