Hi everyone…its time for the Week 7 update and I guess its all as expected. I am at my maximum dose and certainly feeling it today. I am maxing out on my nausea pills but still feel very sick and unable to work or do much of anything. I can handle the nausea but I am waiting to see if the vertigo or mouth problems show up. If they don't, and its just the nausea then I will feel lucky and just hang tough.
The doctor said he didn’t think the vertigo was related to chemo as all my blood came back normal so we are just going to watch and wait. It was possibly an inner ear infection or something like that. As for the mouth sores, that seems to be hit or miss so again we wait and watch.
My brother and his son came down last week and spend Wed-Mon with us so that was a great treat. I am attaching a picture of my brother (Paul) and his son (David) along with Carol and me at lunch last week. We had a nice visit, especially seeing David who is living in China for a few years teaching English as a second language to people in China. He will be heading back for one more year and then returning to the States to get his masters.
Other than that its pretty much normal stuff for us…get through the chemo, enjoy the good times when you can and looking forward to Christmas!
I am looking at 5 more sessions of this nastiness and then I am free again!! This time we are not going to look too far forward and just hope for the best and pray for clean scans from now on!!
Peace and love to all of you!
John and Carol
Hello Rambo John-Glad to see you're in "fight mode". Keep up the good work and kick ass!!
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