Treatments

The treatments so far are going well, have just been exhausted. I’ll try and get better about updating!

Radiation has been smooth, with each treatment only lasting about 2 minutes. I do that at 6:45 every morning, Monday through Friday.

I am not all that happy with the chemo doc, as the information he puts out for how long kept changing. He originally said chemo would be the first 3 days, and the last 3 days of the radiation, and that they would last about 1 hour. Well, Monday I get there and find out the treatments are going to take 5-6 hours. Luckily that was just Monday, and the last 3 days have gone for about 2 1/2 hours each for the actual chemo. I guess the first day they had more fluids, and were making sure I took the medicine okay. The chemo drug they put me on is Andrucil. Each day the doc comes down and makes his rounds, but there are 2 doctors that take turns. Dr Deshmukh, who is my doctor, does Mon and Wed, and gets there about 9 AM, which is a good time. Let me add they keep you hooked up until the Dr sees you (important for the next doc). On Tuesday it was his partner, so I get there bright and early like Monday and get hooked up. Dr Rashman doesn’t do his rounds until about 11-11:30. So, myself and 3 other patients were hooked up to empty IV’s for about an extra hour or so waiting for him to get there. Not too bad with the port really, but kind of nerve wracking knowing you are done, and just waiting on some guy to walk through. Then to top it off, on Wednesday was Dr Deshmukh again, and when I ask about the 3rd day, he said it has changed..I am now doing the first 4 days, and last 4 days, instead of just 3 and 3. The claim was that the Mayo clinic has changed it’s recommendations between when I saw him originally and now. So, I had to go back on Thursday as well. Chemo is now done for a little bit and I only do radiation for the next few weeks. I went back to work today, and all is well as it stands. I am just glad it is Friday though, as having 2 days with nothing will be nice.