Chemo starts Tuesday

Hope everyone enjoyed the "spring preview" weather yesterday! 75 degrees!

Dr. Roa (oncologist) has a call out to Sloan to compare notes, but has not heard back yet since he was in clinic. She and Dr. Goldberg (radiologist) advised we set up an appointment for chemo for next week, just in case. So we are scheduled for Tuesday @ 10am to start. The treatment will be a Carboplatin/Gemzar combo. He will receive treatments 2 weeks on, 1 week off.

During treatments his progress and blood counts (white, red & platelets) will be monitored and evaluated to be sure it is effective, and make tweaks along the way if not. The Gemzar side effects are slight fatigue, not much hair loss (thank goodness!) and no nausea. He will be given an Iron IV with treatments to be sure he doesn't become anemic. This is because the part of his stomach that was removed for his gastric bi-pass surgery would have absorbed iron.

This is the plan as we know so far, unless we hear from Sloan and things change, but we have a good feeling that this will be the plan of action, then we can see Sloan after it's complete.

Next week:
Tuesday @ 10am - chemo
Wednesday @ 2pm - PET Scan
Friday (time TBD) - follow up with Dr. Roa

Thank you again everyone for your continued support, prayers and kind offers of help and hope. We appreciate you all.

Keri
(peaceofkeri@gmail.com)