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Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 1,275 Likes: 8 | Isn’t there a blood lab at your hospital? We have one and we went there very early, like 7 a.m., so that we would be at he head of the line. Chemo would only be given if the bloodwork was back. So, it’s our way of spending less time waiting. Find out from your nurse (they are better at this sort of thing than doctors) what other patients do if there’s no blood lab at your hospital.
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.
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