Hi Petey,

I'm guessing you will have radiation on chemo days. ...I think that's pretty standard

It makes for long days, but on the plus side if my husband wasn't having radiation on chemo days we would have to add extra days to the treatment calendar to get his 35 RTs in...and, that would be tough.

They gave my husband a heavy dose of ativan prior to the cisplatin and that made him very tired. On a chemo day, do you have someone who can drive you home if you are tired or a little loopy?

Did they write you a bunch of anti-nausea scripts for the Cisplatin. At our site, they made us fill three scripts that we had to come to the hospital with on the day he started treatment.

They started him on the meds there and then gave us a very detailed schedule of what to take and when for the week. The goal was to ward of the nausea before it came. That worked for him. Although, my husband had hearing issues from the cisplatin so he had to be switched off of it. He doesn't regret the dose he had or the hearing issue as Cisplatin seems to be the current gold standard.

All the best,