Saturday, January 2, 2010

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Just can't sit still

After arriving home this past Saturday from a fantastic trip to Israel, we are off again to Boca today. Diana and the gang will be staying in Boca while I fly off to Puerto Rico to join up with a cruise ship that my mom, Phil and the gang are already on. Even though the timing is a bit sketchy with regards my lousy chemo days, how can you not relax and chill on a luxury ship with your own state room and butler. Awesome.

Carpe Diem.

Monday, December 28, 2009

Chemo 10 (Round 6)

Wow. I've been on this round (6) of maintenance therapy for 30 weeks now. The good thing is it seems to working and the side effects have been somewhat tolerable. When I say working, there is no growth or spread. When we reach the stage where the drugs that I'm on now loose effectiveness then we have other options as well as Dr. Sidransky and the MouseSkins.

My check up with Dr. Schraeder went well and we have decided to go with a treatment schedule of 4 weeks, 3 weeks, 3 weeks, 4 weeks etc. etc. This will give me somewhat of a break every third cycle. My scans will still be on a 2-3 month schedule. The next scan is January 18th, 2010. My weight is stable at 150 lbs and the blood work was all fine. The treatment went well and I'm loving my new port.

Carpe Diem.