This is another one of those situations where I just have to laugh, so I don't want to pull my hair out. I'm already missing half of my hair with the exception of 2 inches of new growth, from my surgery in February. SO, with that I will choose laughter. Not only do I finally [...]
So.....my scan today was very uneventful. That would be because I didn't have one. Because I sprang this appointment on them at the last minute when I booked it a month ago, they were not prepared with enough contrast to inject in my body, which acts to light up any malignant cells during the PET [...]
Well folks, I finished up DMSO last Friday night. I was so anxious to be done with it all that I actually did 2 doses that night, rather than one. So I double-dipped, just in time for one of our friend's weddings on Saturday. Everybody was so sweet about it, but I know that I [...]
I'll be honest. I am aching to see my family. The first week went fairly quickly, but this one is crawling. I almost had myself convinced that it's actually Wednesday today, rather than Tuesday, but alas.... Treatment is going really well. Like I've said before, I really look forward to hanging out with the people [...]
We finished our first set of treatments yesterday and started our second round this morning. We are now on Sodium Bicarbonate, much to my mom's relief. Along with the change in treatment will come a change in our aroma. Everything is going really well, other than my PICC line refusing to stop bleeding. I actually look forward [...]
Well, we finally got through our first day of treatment. We thought we were going to start yesterday, after our PET scans, but since the glucose they inject into our bodies before the scan doesn't leave for 24 hours, we had to wait. The clinic is on the Oral Roberts University campus, in what used to [...]