I met with my local oncologist on Tuesday, who offered to do Carboplatin, once a week, where I live, locally, instead of me going into Manhattan, which can be a nightmare to get to during the holidays, and in opposite direction of New Jersey where I need to go for Proton Treatment everyday. Considered staying at Hope Lodge in Manhattan on 32nd street, if available, and commute to NJ by foot, train, taxi. which would be a trek, and costly to boot, and nothing is free, cheap, except Hope Lodge, with any option, but my oncologist didn't think staying, commuting by myself was a good idea anyway. Planning is worse than treatment sometimes.

Blood work shows my hemoglobin is dropping from 11.5, my highest in years in September, after being transfused in May, and now is 9.2, but still no need for an injection or transfusion, but the trend has been, I will, especially with rads, chemo, and neither is good for cancer, so they usually wait until it gets below 8, 7, but really anytime under 10, if the patient in distress, like shortness of breath, etc., and is considered an emergency. Mine was 7.5, last year during treatment, until I had two transfusions, and really felt I needed it! During my acute kidney failure in May, my hemoglobin was 6.2, and didn't know I needed one, I didn't feel in distress.