( Medical mini-rant beneath the cut... The delicate may avert their eyes. )

( A gripe, rant or whatever you want to call it about the naming and dating of tropical storms lies beneath this cut. Be ye warned of severe weather nerdishness! )

We saw Dr. Hsieh, who said I looked well and agreed to install a port. The Herceptin will, in fact, be once a week and last for a year. He is also talking about Tamoxifen. He mentioned an additional chemo drug, Taxol, but he mentioned that there was a chance of a lethal allergic reaction and that use of the drug only improved survival rates by ( Read more... )

I got a flu shot yesterday. Ugh! I think it worked just fine. My left upper arm is very sore and slightly swollen, and I feel tired and generally not good. However, when I looked it up, those are all well within the normal range of side-effects, so I really don't feel like bothering Kaiser with it. Not unless things get a heap worse ( Read more... )