From David!
5pm Friday - Hi everyone;
Just a quick not to let you know that Michellie is home from Antigonish and is doing fine. Michelle is exhausted and is already in bed for the night, but Michellie is up and about. Feeling a little off, but not anything as bad as Round One.
The Hospital and staff at St. Martha’s in Antigonish were fabulous, as well as the little motel they recommended. The docs and nurses continue to be impressed with her progress and her strength against what they describe as one of the most aggressive chemo protocols they’ve seen! Plenty of hydration and additional support drugs seemed to have helped mitigate most of the nasty side effects this time around.
The next four days will be spent at home, with just oral meds and injections. She’s due back in Antigonish next Wed am for a short day of chemo and will spend that night in hospital for observation (hopefully not if there’s no adverse reaction...?), and blood work on Thursday.
The next round of treatments is scheduled to begin Feb 1 in Halifax with a PET scan (I don’t know why – we already told them about our 2 cats…!), then Chemo resuming Feb 2.
Can’t believe we’re already almost halfway there!
Thanks as always for all your love and support
David
I think Michellie is one tough chick! Sounds great...thanks for the update. Nice to get home between treatments...time to rest up.
ReplyDeleteNice to hear from you, David! Sounds like all is going as well as can be expected, that you might even get a little rest in before heading back to Antigonish next Wednesday. What great news that Michellie made it through Round 2 with fewer side effects than she experienced in Round 1. I hear from Michelle that you're the science guy so you will appreciate the concept of the PET scan. The layperson's explanation: A pretty minuscule amount of very mildly radioactive sugar is injected (by butterfly needle so not painful) into the arm. After you sit quietly for one hour, you go into a machine like a CT scan. Because cancer cells metabolize sugar differently than healthy cells, the x-ray will "light up" any of these active/cancerous cells. The test will give you all a good idea on the headway this treatment is making against these tumours. And I'm certain the news will be great! Wishing you peaceful days in your own home before the next round.
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