Hi, Amy,

Thanks so much for the update on your mom. My husband had a very similar protocol of chemo drugs (as your mom is having now) as "induction" chemo prior to beginning combined radiation/chemo. The 5FU (he had it for 24/7 for 5 days at a time in combo with cisplatin and taxotore) made him quite sick for about a week or longer each time. Because of taking Emend and having 3 types of chemo and various painkillers, etc. we never really knew what was making him feel lousy but we did think it was the 5FU. I do remember how we would literally lay in bed and count down the last few hours until I could unhook him from the 5FU at the end of the 5 days. When he just had cisplatin along with radiation it was "easy" compared to the multiple chemo protocol(until near the end of radiation when the radiation effects really kicked in) . In retrospect, it's a really difficult protocol that your mom is undergoing. Plus, your mom began this before fully recovering from a difficult surgery.

My thoughts are with your mom and your family as you go through this. Please let us know when she has her next treatment so that we can be thinking of her.

Sophie