Today was the start of treatment #10.  My CBC analysis of my blood was good.  ANC was up a few fractional points from last week and my white blood cell count is good. Last weeks draw showed that my Magnesium was still a bit low, so they hit me with a 2 hour infusion making […]

I just realized that my last post was 5 days ago. Really nothing new to say though. I feel fine, and my energy level is normal. My appointment with the surgeon has been moved from June 21 to June 19 to accommodate his schedule (he has a surgery scheduled for the same time as my […]

I had a planned power outage last night that prevented me from posting. I went in Wednesday for an early CBC (Complete Blood Count) check to verify my ANC was fine before next weeks treatment.  The good news it that it was still in the normal range, so hopefully that one low count event was […]

Today was another good day It was the third day of the memorial day weekend and other than needing to hide from the sun, it was really nice. Nace, Abby and Emeline visited again. Emeline was much happier than the last visit and she is growing like a weed. Other than that visit, I spent […]

So Friday I got the results of my CT scan and it shows definite improvement. The progress appears to be on track for the plan we are following.  My Magnesium was low on Wednesday, so when I went in to turn in the pump, they gave me a bag of electrolytes with Mg to top […]

Today I received my 9th treatment. Last week they chose to not treat me to allow time for my platelets to recover.  That worked, but my ANC (a measure of infection resistance) was down. Rather than skip another week, the doctor decided to reduce my doses of the Oxalaplatin and the 5-FU instead. This hopefully […]

Today was a really good day.  The whole week with my Mom, sister and niece here was great and today my PA family got together with my CA family and we all had a good time. I was really happy to have my friend Dana and her sone Kristian here for the weekend.  I don’t […]

So with the 1 week suspension of my treatment I get some extra days where I am on the healing side of the treatment schedule instead of the attack mode. I did some basic research to see how / what can be done to boost the platelet count and generally the suggestion was to eat […]

This morning I woke up and did my mostly normal preparations for my Wednesday treatment session.  With Mother, sister and niece in tow, we headed to the facility.  Unfortunately, my blood work showed a low platelets count (not dangerously low, but out of spec low) so my doctor decided to delay my 9th treatment a […]

Today my Mom, sister and niece arrived from Pittsburgh for their one week visit. It has been nice seeing them all and I look forward to an enjoyable week. Tomorrow is treatment 9. So far things have stayed pretty constant. I still have the annoying rash but it has not gotten significantly worse. The worst […]