I was waiting to post because yesterday I got the news that my neutrophils had tanked again (to their lowest point yet) and so yesterday afternoon I rushed in for another injection. (Hi Kathryn, this is City of Hope, can you be here in an hour? Why yes, yes I can.) I’m grateful they can […]

I am very excited to say that the Zarxio worked and I was able to have treatment today. It was fabulous news when I saw the bloodwork this morning! I’m actually even a little surprised at how well it worked…I’m going to be quite interested to see how the numbers go now over the next

This week is treatment 3/week 3 of the current immunotherapy/chemotherapy cycle. I was anxiously awaiting the bloodwork results today – clicking refresh on the City of Hope test results webpage every 15 minutes from about 1030 this morning. Last cycle my neutrophils had dropped below the acceptable range for treatment at this point. (Neutrophils: (NOO-troh-fil) A

I was grateful for the Monday off today. I think I may need to adjust my schedule for “weeks with all 3 drugs”…it was different this weekend. Looking back on it, not terribly different, but definitely different, I guess this is the start of truly understanding what they mean by “cumulative”. Thursday, as expected, I

I wanted to share some good news with all of you. I had a follow-up post treatment cycle #1 appointment today with my oncologist. She looked at my bloodwork from Monday and also did a physical exam. She had told me what to watch for that was indicative of good progress (softness in the tumor)

It’s another War & Peace length post…thanks for hanging in there with the reading – I’ve been amazed at how therapeutic writing these has been for me – thank you for reading them! When we last left things (I feel like the recap on a TV show…haha) we were waiting for insurance approval on the

Well, we’ve hit a snag. It might be a slightly expected snag, but a snag nonetheless. On Wednesday, I got a call from the doctor’s office telling me that my white blood cell count was too low to have chemotherapy today. The nurse said this was “normal”. I knew it was a likely occurrence and

Last week was treatment #2. For this treatment I only got 1 drug, paclitaxel. This meant that the treatment was much shorter and we were only at the infusion center for about 2.5 hours vs. the 5+ hours we were there the first week. (Although future week 1 treatments won’t be that long…) We tried

We made it! We made it through the rough part of treatment 1. Just as the chemo nurses advised, Days 3 & 4 were the worst with Day 3 being the worst and Day 4 feeling a bit better for me this time around. Hopefully this is a trend that continues, but only time will

Well, chemo day 1 is in the books. (1 down, 23 ish to go.) As far as getting the infusion…not so bad, I haven’t loved this port, but oh am I grateful to have it today and know I will be going forward. I know it’s silly, IVs are a very basic, useful thing, but