Chemo was cancelled today because Dr. Scott wants to upgrade the regimen. "I'm not doing enough for you." he said.
The report from last Friday's CT scan confirmed what I suspected; the liver lesions are still growing and multiplying in the right lobe of the liver. I had a gut feeling. Literally.
Inspired by a recent talk from Memorial Sloan Kettering Esophageal Cancer guru, Dr. David Ilson, Dr. Scott wants to try me on a combination of Oxaliplatin and Fluorouracil (5-FU). The former is similar to what I am used to but the latter has some new side effects and a new delivery system. The side effects are mainly temperature sensitivity. No hot or cold foods or drinks, no hot showers or reaching into the freezer. It is delivered over 46 hours so it will involve an electric pump hooked to my port that I will take home with me for a couple of nights. These sound very unpleasant but one of the problems I had with the last regimen was that I was not feeling it enough. I did not have the sense that it was killing cancer, and that proved to be the case.
So I'm off to get some premium ice cream and hot fudge. I've got a week to enjoy these pleasures.
2 comments:
Enjoy your ice cream, Chuck. May this be the first of many sundaes you get to enjoy over the next many, many years. Hang in there! Believing with and for you.
Hang in there, keep on keeping on ...
See you this summer
Matt
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