OP  "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 624 | Hi --
We started the aloe and Biafine week before treatment, thanks to the "Image Recovery Center" at Hopkins which sells a lost of the anti-radiation etc. supplies. The gal there advised us to do this. Barry's skin looks very good, considering, so it probably helped.
Bit of a disappointment today -- got all the way to Baltimore and the tomo machine had just gone down after about an hour's treatments. Everyone sat and waited for the engineer etc. and finally, it was apparent that it wasn't going to happen today. Luckily Barry didn't take the amiphostine (they don't give it until they know the schedule is on time) but he did pop another Zofran 90 minutes before so more $$$ down the drain! Bit of a downer, once you are "ready" you want to get it over with -- all the folks waiting looked unhappy as they all love to go home and cross one more D----d treatment off the calendar!
Gail
CG to husband Barry, dx. 7/21/05, age 66, SCC rgt. tonsil, BOT, 2 nodes (stg. IV), HPV+, tonsillectomy, 7x carboplatin, 35x tomoTherapy IMRT w/ Ethyol @ Johns Hopkins, thru treatment 9/28/05, HPV vaccine trial 12/06-present. Looking good!
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