Assistant Admin Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 1,275 Likes: 7 | Hi Seth, I think about how you're doing all the time. You and John do seem to be in more or less the same boat. He has had two rounds of taxol and carboplatin and has not been able to have the third because his neutrophils are coming back really slowly and the doctor had to cancel the chemo two weeks in a row. The only good thing is the interventional radiologist is able to schedule him to go in to have another esophageal dilatation (will post about this at some point). It is hard not to be able to see a clear way forward and to be in a holding pattern all the time. I guess one will just have to be philosophical about it.
Lots of luck to you on your second chemo and hope that the gut pain isn't too bad this time. You are always on our minds.
Gloria She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails... Elizabeth Edwards
Wife to John,dx 10/2012, BOT, HPV+, T3N2MO, RAD 70 gy,Cisplatinx2 , PEG in Dec 6, 2012, dx dvt in both legs after second chemo session, Apr 03/13 NED, July 2013 met to lungs, Phase 1 immunotherapy trial Jan 18/14 to July/14. Taxol/carboplatin July/14. Esophagus re-opened Oct 14. PEG out April 8, 2015. Phase 2 trial of Selinexor April to July 2015. At peace Jan 15, 2016. |