Week 4 Begins

I am motivated and ready to get started on chemo this week, seeing as how it's my LAST WEEK OF CHEMO!!!

This week started out with good news from the meeting with the physician's assistant. She tells me the lymph nodes have returned to normal size and the tumor marker numbers are inside of a normal range. Also, I was on two blood thinners, a pill and an injection. For more than a week I had to inject myself in my stomach twice a day, which was terrible. Thankfully, the level of the pill delivered drug in my system is high enough that I don't need to inject myself anymore.

I can't wait to finish this round of the fight and completely crush this cancer.

Blood Clot

So after my third week of chemo, the doctor found a blood clot in my inferior veina cava (the spelling may be way off) I had a follow up CT scan that revealed that the clot was 8 cm long. The nature of this clot was not that threatening so they told me to take it easy, and they put me on blood thinners. This is a little unexpected for me but I know with God I can handle all things. I'll be fine but I will be on blood thinners for 3-6 months.

Chemo Week 3

Week 3 sucked. The Nausea was worse and the mental fog was worse. I had a bucket next to me most of the treatment just in case the worse happened. I usually only sleep the last 2 days of chemo but I was knocked out by the first day. Then the nurses decided that I needed a little more help so they brought out this patch with a name like a Transformer (Chermegatron or something crazy). That was the day I met my new best friend. The Nausea was still there but the mental fog was lifted. I felt mentally awake from Thursday all the way to today thanks to that patch. My mom and I picked up a script for it Monday and tried to get it filled at CVS. For some insurance reason it needed additional clearance. We asked what the price was if we bought it without insurance and they said the price was $1000 plus dollars. I guess that's why it took so long for them to give me the drug.

Nausea is always a struggle and oddly enough it usually leads me to overeating just to make the pain go away. I'm fine now and ready to rock and roll. One more treatment left to just crush this cancer and any thought of it returning. May God give me strength and heal me. Thank you all for your continued prayers and support.

Great News

On Monday, August 6th I met with the doctor before starting chemo for the Third week. My schedule is set up for one week on, two weeks off and Monday of the on week I always see Dr. Hudhud. As usual he goes over how I feel, how the last chemo went, and most importantly my tumor markers. The tumor markers are numbers from my AFP and hCG (If I recall correctly).

So after only 2 weeks of treatment, my tumor markers have returned to normal healthy ranges. In addition, the most recent CT scan showed that my lymph nodes, where the tumors are located, have returned to 2mm of their normal size.

Praise be to God and God bless Dr. Hudhud and the nursing staff for all the great care I've received.

Chemo Week 2

So the second week of chemo was from July 23 to July 28. Week 2 was harder than week 1, but no worries i'm did just fine. Nausea was really the biggest issue and then there was that mental fog. Nausea for me is very weird. There is that feeling of throwing up but it' like i'm constantly close to doing that but never really there. The only thing I can do for the nausea other than taking my meds is eat. So i'm in a terrible situation where I eat to make the pain go away. Between that and the steroids I am packing on the pounds.

The weekend was pretty hard. I had a massive headache on Sunday that really put me out. The week came around and I was up and running by about Tuesday. Halfway done was a very good feeling indeed.