OP Contributing Member (25+ posts) Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 26 | Hi. My mother started treatment on June 25. Carboplatin chemo 1x per week on Mondays and radiation 5x/week for 7 weeks. Her first week was tough. She had a trache put in as a precautionary measure (as recommended by the dr. at Sloan Kettering) and had to spend 4 days in the hospital. She was vomiting a lot, but the doctors and nurses figured it was due to a change in her food (we feed her through PEG) or from the anesthesia used for the trache procedure. This week the vomiting continues. The RO does not think it is from ethyol considering that she gets sick more than 4 hours post injection, but the vomiting is just getting worse and I am worried about her getting enough nutrition and liquids. Today has been the worst. She has been sick 3 times already today. Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks for your help. I have been "lurking" on these boards since she was diagnosed and just need some help. It has been an awful day.
Caretaker to my best friend, my mom. Age 60 - never smoked or drank. St IVA oropharynx. 37 radiation tx, 8 carboplatin tx. Diag 5/31/07-TX completed 8/16/07-good PET 10/10/07. Passed away 3/28/08 due to weakened blood vessels from tx. Now watching over her triplet grandsons born on 5/19/08.
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