Well, to keep you up to date on my schedule I have my 6th treatment on Sept 13th. Doug will not be here. He is leaving on the 10th of Sept for his SOS class in Alabama for 5 weeks. I have a friend taking me on the 13th so I won't be alone. Then there are other visitors coming until Doug gets home and he is close enough to visit on a weekend or two. That's the latest. I hope you all are doing great. I'll be emailing again soon.
Love to you all,
Keri
Subject: Dr. Appt Update
Sent: Thursday, September 7, 2006 4:34 PM
Hello Everyone,
I had a Dr's appt today and thought I would share with you what we discussed. It looks like I will still be going through treatments even through the holidays. We talked about getting another scan done, but he seems to think that it is useless at this point because he is going off my pain and since my pain has not seemed to get any better he feels that we haven't made much progress.
Also it took a while for us to figure out the right mix of chemo drugs and I have only had 2 treatments with the right mix so the first three are sort of being forgotten since they were not using the correct drugs. Anyway that means that even though I am coming up on my 6th treatment I really am getting only the 3rd treatment with the correct drugs. That is why I will be having treatments longer than we thought and into the holidays.
Hopefully it will not ruin any holidays, but it does put them in a different perspective. That's all I know for now. I guess we'll find out more as I get more treatments with the correct drugs and we see how my body does. I seem to be extra fatigued so he has put me on a stimulant to help pep me up. Get this I'm now taking Ritalin or how ever you spell it. Now I'll probably be bouncing off the walls.
I'll have to let you all know how that goes. Anyway other than that I'm just on my usual basket full of pills. They are watching my red blood cells and my hemoglobin because it's been low lately and I've had to get Procrit shots to help with that. Wow, what a mess I am. Well, once again I'm having trouble sitting in the chair so I need to go. Hope all is well with you and yours. Take care.
Love to you all,
Keri
