The meeting this afternoon with my oncologist went rather well. He spent most of our consultation explaining the new chemotherapy protocol that I will begin on Monday. This new treatment is in pill form so I'll be able to take it at home. The side effects are of the usual caliber: nausea, throwing up, drowsiness, dry mouth, fatigue, head aches, ( Read more... )

The combat continues. I found out this morning that I have metastases in my rib, hip, spinal column and femur. I really appreciate it that my doctors have the balls to tell me straight up. At least I know what I have to fight.

Today I had my first injection of Zometa. I'll have these injections once a month. I'll probably undergo radiotherapy and ( Read more... )

( So I've been hesitating to update the most recent mednews. )

My intestines sound like an overactive video game - the shoot 'em up kind ( Read more... )

The adhesions are not cancerous. This is a very positive discovery.

The liver biopsy revealed nodular regenerative hyperplasia. This is not positive.

( More on NRH for the medically-inclined )

Chemo went very well yesterday! I shared a room with a fantastic lady. She's retired now but used to be a documentaliste. We got to chatting because she was knitting. Then we moved on to books and our mutual love of books - everything about books. She currently restores book bindings with a group of her friends for their local library. We talked ( Read more... )

I started chemo again yesterday afternoon.
There's a new oncologist who has joined the team. He was quite pleasant, asking questions about the surgery, about how I was feeling both after the surgery and now.... He confirmed that I had lost quite a bit of weight and has prescribed some medical protein booster suppplement proven to help patients that ( Read more... )

Froggy's back from Berlin. *grins* ( grumble à la hornets & neighbours )

Froggy returned to work this morning - the holidays are officially over ( Read more... )

We're back from the countryside and much overeating. It was good to get away but equally nice to come back. I'm stalling on my research, allowing site updating to take over my daytime. I even wrote a cute short story this morning - can we say avoidance ( Read more... )