This week has been chock full of good news. On the medical front, my oncologist confirmed that she can no longer feel any nodes on my neck. At all. Nothing. Nada. That friggin rocks. She did feel a little something on my scar, but it seemed too surface to be a node (she believes) and thinks its definitely scar tissue from my incision.
There was no mention of the dreaded "dose reduction", and things went pretty routine. The only real new info was that I'm actually not getting re-scans done until Cycle 4 is done, not Treatment 4. That means rather than getting my PET scan before Christmas, we're not going to see how the chest is until early March. I'm cool with this, as the neck is pretty good proof SOMETHING good is happening, and my cough being gone definitely would correspond to good news on the chesty front.
I'm a little tired, felt some VERY minor nausea (for the first time), but other than that feeling pretty good. I also have some jaw pain, but I actually got that BEFORE treatment; I wonder if I'm clenching and grinding at night - That could be the culprit as much as the Vincristine. In any event, I got stuff for that, haha.
Looking forward to seeing everyone at Christmas. I'll get treatment the week before (so eating may not be as... Forceful... As Thanksgiving), but I'll be in good spirits.
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Steve, nice to see you back... Interesting to see the differences between you and Erin and the US and Canada. She has had no reaction to the Neupogen at all nothing! They are going to scan her, gallium and ct after cycle 2 now, they had said after 3 cycles but it will be nice to see whats going on. She is going on to Thursday treatments after Christmas so we will be back on the same schedule. Glad to see you doing well , Roger
Thanks man, appreciate it. I felt good for a few days (finally), so I was hanging out with the rugrats, since they were left alone while Daddy was under the weather.
Revise that: They were left alone with Mommy, and everyone knows NO ONE is more fun than Daddy, so we had to rectify that ;-)
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