Another week is in the books, so to speak (or write), and we
are back to our Thursday-scheduled Chemoday. We’ve been to pick up the cold
caps and the dry ice and have made our way to The Wandering Goose in Capitol
Hill for some breakfast and coffee. Frankly, I hope we wasted our time getting
the dry ice.
The past two weeks have been a bit of a rollercoaster (no
pun intended) between our trip to Anaheim, returning for Chemoday last
Thursday, and then leaving late the very next afternoon for a long weekend on
the Oregon coast. Deb jumped right back into work full force on Tuesday and
that brings us back to today.
Last week I reported that Dr. Ahmed decided to give Deb a
Taxol dose again following a two week break.
She had hopes that Deb’s system had a chance to clear out the previous
doses, but she still cut the dose a little even so.
It didn’t really help.
Deb’s side-effect symptoms, while they had not cleared
completely, had lessened a lot from the two weeks without Taxol. So she got
Taxol. They came back with a vengeance.
Okay, never mind that I am anthropomorphizing a chemotherapy drug for a moment (and any need for vengeance, of course),
but the previous nausea and neuropathy came back quickly. Very quickly.
Deb had to deal with them during the whole weekend away. My guess (and Deb’s) is that Dr. Ahmed will
hear the report and decide that Deb has had enough of Taxol and she’s
done. Deb’s made it through two-thirds
of the planned course of Taxol and at the outset we all felt that we’d be happy
if she made it at least halfway.
So that’s where I will leave it this week, with the
expectation that we will again forego Taxol and Deb will only receive the
Herceptin. I will post an update mid-day if things don’t go that way, or if
there’s anything else notable to report.
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