02 Jan 2013 -
Confirmed the following:
- Port Implant -- tomorrow at 1pm, "Same Day Surgery". Abby is taking me.
- 1st Radiation - Monday, Jan 7 at 7:30am (first appointment of the day). Joyce is taking me for this.
- 1st (of 3 total) Chemo - Monday, Jan 7 at 8:30 (first appointment of the day). Hope I can do this on my own. We'll see how bad I feel after Monday.
- Hydration IV - Tuesday & Wednesday at 8:30, right after Radiation. Again, hoping to do this on my own.
Last week, I declined to participate in a research study. The planned / recommended course of Chemo for my type of cancer is 3 doses of Cisplatin (1st day, midway through, last day). The study would've placed me 50-50 into either A) 2 doses of Cisplatin, 1st day & midway through -- skip the last dose), or B) Treatment with Erbitux. After lots of thought, I decided to push through with more Chemo, not less, on the grounds that I'm young and otherwise healthy enough to handle the treatment in return for increased efficacy against these tumors. Your first attack on the cancer is your best....follow-up treatments for recurrances are dodgy, so throw the kitchen sink at this one.
Sounds like a good plan. I guess I don't quite understand the Joyce will take me/hope I can do this on my own (on the first chemo).
ReplyDeleteHey - all I'm saying is the Chemo days (3 of them) will be 6 hours for the chemo on top of the half hour radiation. I definitely need rides home on those days. For the days that are just radiation, I anticipate being able to just drive myself to the appointment and then just go to work afterwards. At least in the beginning. We'll see how the plan holds up once I start and the effects start to add up.
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