Thank you gentlemen, for your replies. I did call the nurse who assured me that it was normal to not meet weekly if all went well round 1.

Just to slap "normal" in the face, I developed a fever Friday evening - ignored it, because I got it to go back down - came back higher (101.1) Saturday night, and I've been hanging at the hospital since, with recurring fever with unknown cause and critically low wbc (I've asked 4 people for the number associated with "critical" in my case - no answer yet). Mouth sores have developed (not rampant, but enough to make eating impossible w/out viscous lidocaine - and not much with eating with it,but some). Wah! I know tons of people suffer much more during treatment. And I have to say, if I had seen my Dr. weekly, he probably couldn't have seen the fever that would come.

Whew, long rant. Be well - Merry Christmas!