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Cancer During a Pandemic
What a month it’s been! We’ve gone from hand sanitizer and me not taking the kids to school, to not going anywhere other than the doctor’s office and wearing face masks whenever we leave the house. Even though the November – January period was very frustrating, I can’t imagine how much more frustrating and frightening…
Chemo: Round 4
(CA) 19-9 – A type of tumor marker. Dec 23 – 4583 U/mL Jan 14 – 12111 U/mL Jan 28 – 25552 U/mL Feb 11 – 8523 U/mL Feb 25 – 2687 U/mL Conclusion: I’m responding well to the treatment at this time! After four rounds of treatment, we are seeing a pattern in how these…
Chemo: Rounds 1-3
ROUND 1 – 14 January 2020 The chemotherapy treatment began in full force with the FOLFIRINOX branded combination of drugs: folinic acid (also called leucovorin, calcium folinate or FA) fluorouracil (also called 5FU) irinotecan oxaliplatin Considering the advanced and widespread state of my disease, the oncologist felt it was necessary to use this very aggressive…
MD Anderson: Follow Up
This Wednesday my Dad drove us both to Houston for the day for a follow up appointment at MD Anderson. As expected, MDA still didn’t have my CT scan or PET scan from last year, even though they’d had almost two weeks to obtain them. Luckily, I had brought my own copies of the disks…
MD Anderson
This past weekend Jessica and I traveled to Houston for our first appointment at MD Anderson Cancer Center. It’s an impressive campus with hundreds and hundreds of patients and staff and they really have their operations in order. The only reason we had to wait for very long was that we arrived early for our…
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