Chemotherapy starts on Monday. We have to get Chris' contribution before then. The drugs used for his chemo are strong enough that we don't want to take any chances on not being able to have kids one day.
About the chemotherapy...he'll be recieving three drugs* over a period of nine weeks. The week of December 14th-18th he will have chemotherapy every day. The next two weeks he will have nothing. His second round of chemo will be from January 4th-8th, with the following two weeks off. His last round will be January 25th-29th. Of course this is all depending on his labs, so if something needs to be tweaked then we'll go from there. Dr. K. seems to think these three rounds should do the trick.
His hair is going to fall out a couple of weeks after the chemotherapy starts. A month or so after his last round of chemotherapy it should start to grow back. In the words of Dr. K, "It'll be thicker, curlier, and a little bit gray." Can we say distinguished? I think we are going to need some toboggans to get through the winter.
As far as the side effects go, Dr. K. said that the only thing Chris would have trouble with is fatigue. He said if he has any nausea at all then he's not doing his job and he'd tweak the meds until he had no nausea. I'll believe it when I see it. I hope, for Chris' sake that he only has to deal with fatigue, I can't imagine being tired and nauseous at the same time.
Wish
*The three chemotherapy drugs he'll be getting are Bleomycin, Cisplatin, and Etoposide.
5 comments:
let me just say that the line "can we say distinguished" made me laugh out loud in the library haha :)
keep on keepin' on...
also, its sure a huge jump from how much treatements have advanced in the last few years, my grandmother/grandfather both had cancer and i remember how big of a deal nausea was for them...good to hear technology is helping out!
and if theres anything i can do for you...let me know...ok?
-John
Woohoo! Glad I can bring some humor into this thing. I'll let you know if we need anything. Like, any good soup recipes you may have sitting around the house. Ya know, for the nausea we are hoping doesn't exist.
Dad and I are wishing both of you all the luck in the world! Ashley, I wanted to "thankyou" for doing this blog...it really means a lot to us, since we are so far away!
You're welcome! I've been wanting to start it for a while. It's fun for me :)
i hope everything went ok today. i'm thinking about you both.
brandi
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