Fourth Treatment
July 1, 2008 07:53 am by RayI have now made it through my fourth treatment! I had it at the Cancer Center yesterday, Monday, June 30. Arlene and I were there at 10:30 a.m. to have preliminary blood work done, and then we met with, Sue, the Physician's Assistant for Dr. Adhami, who is our main onclogist here in Fort Wayne. Sue told me that my hemoglobon level was up, and that was a very good sign. She was also pleased that my bouts with nausea had not been too severe, and they were able to control this side effect to the chemo with medication. As far as my treatments are concerned, I wll now have ten days off from them. I will resume them on Friday, July 11, and have a block of four more treaments at that time. I already have an appointment scheduled with my oncologist in the Indianapolis Medical Center for Thursday, July 24, at the end of that set of four treatments.
After our meeting with Sue, we discovered that there was a long wait for chemo, and so the nurses advised us to go home, have some lunch, and return in the afternoon. We did that, and had the treatment at about 2:30 p.m. Fortunately, my type of treatment doesn't take very long, compared with some others whose treatments last 4-6 hours, and so they were able to work me in. I was up quite a few times during the night, going to the bathrooom about every 1-2 hours. I have discovered that this tends to happen whenever I have a treatment. I have had quite a bit of back pain again today, and some nausea after breakfast, but I seem to be coming out of it right now.
We have a beautiful, warm sunny day here in Fort Wayne, and so I want to make the most of it. Arlene and I are a part of the Senior Saints Choir from our church, and we are giving a concert at 1:00 p.m. at a community center for developmentally disabled people. I am planning to be there for the concert.
Thank you again for your prayers, words of encouragement, and practical support. They mean so much to Arlene and me at a time like this!
Ray