Now, what on earth is that NasalCrom?
It seems like every few days, I stumble upon a different remedy that we can potentially use to control Vodka’s MCTs. Agreed, he’s doing good, being his usual energetic self, but I’m constantly in fear of tomorrow being different. Often, I spend hours researching a possible remedy, evaluating interactions with other drugs, side effects, etc. [...]
Surgery or not?
It has been almost 4 weeks since Vodka’s last chemo shot (Lomustine). We met Dr.Gillings (his oncologist) last tuesday and found that the internal mass in his shoulder had grown by almost 1 cm. Since then, it seems a bit smaller/softer at times, but there has been no significant change. We talked about various options [...]
Normal is good
The Vodka had a CBC due this week. It’s been a couple of weeks since the last CCNU dose - we’ve been getting CBCs done 1-2 weeks after the oral chemo since it seems to affect his neutrophil count more than Vinblastine. This time around, it was all goodness.
I was paranoid enough to just get [...]
The waiting game
Ever since Vodka’s MCTs showed up again, we’ve been exploring a whole slew of alternative treatment options, none of which seem like the perfect solution. Then again, if we had a perfect solution, we would’ve used it already!
Since we haven’t been sold on any specific treatment protocol and he just had one more round of [...]
