Hi Guys well I don�t know if its because I have the most fabulous team of doctors in the world or I am lucky, but I had been feeling sick most of the time, so it stopped my appetite, so much so I did not eat much for 3 days, even though the Monk taking care of me tried to make me eat it was not till I stopped taking the Nausea tablets, that I felt good enough to eat, then as I said, a dear friend took me to Sizzlers and Bingo I was fine again, for eating, I told the doctor he said we have these amazing Nausea tablets from Japan, but they are 40 dollars each in the states, but we can get them for 500 baht I said give me 20 and wow do they work.

Then today I had one of my 6 sessions of chemo, This is a new expensive chemo, but I wont loose my hair and Ill feel good, all through it also the magic ingredient is, I hade 3 hours of saline drip, so now I don�t know if I�m a junky or its the combination all sorts of things, I feel wonderful, so there you have it.

2 more days radiation, then only 5 weeks to go, its flying by and now I feel like I could run to 100 yards so may be im� lucky or there is worst to come.

Let�s hope so as I have always been a very lucky guy.

Good luck to you walknlite , my neck mass has now stopped growing and the mass feels so much better, I saw 4 others with same to day and one was a Monk one a Policeman and one looked like a truck driver, I spoke to one, he said his came up with in 2 months also. But they are curing it, let�s hope its good news all round.

Are you having 6 fractions of Chemo or just two big ones, Im having the 6 and its better all round, I think time will tell, Im thinking of you keep us all Informed but more of all keep your water intake to 3 liters minimum or Saline once a week for a few hours it will work miricals.

Ill let you know more as it happens.

Jon

You are the victim of a HOAX. Your last post is NOT an update, it is FALSE. Please see my prior warning on this
Johns Hopkins cancer HOAX Johns Hopkins even had to post on its webs site a report denying this so called newsletter.
It is not fair to new members to just post false emails here so I have reported this to the moderators to delete.
Again, while you have been a victim, please do not pass this type of false information to any more of your friends. I am not angry at you, but at those who compose these fake emails.

Teacher Jon

Actually, as a sharp eyed OCF member noted and PMed me, at least your false posting spelled Johns Hopkins correctly while the original false email spelled it "John Hopkins". That makes it all the worse, as now this false info appears even more credible.
So it looks like the UK/Thailand version of this hoax is getting more sophisticated than the original March 2007 one.

I deleted the hoax. Teacher Jon, I know that you had the best of intentions and the hoax looked very real but please run these by Brian or I before you post them.

Jon;
I found that the steroids they gave me with my chemo gave me tons of energy and made me feel better for about a day and a half. I know this for sure since one week my blood sugar was 435 so they witheld the steroids and I did not get that energy boost.
So I would take advantage of those good, post chemo days to get more done and get outside a bit.

Good luck.

Gary

Thank you for deleting Teacher Jon's post of the false Johns Hopkins newsletter. I had hoped TJ would have deleted it himself once I pointed it out but that's why we have moderators. You show your great spirit by offering to preview TJ's posts of questionable cancer "facts" but it's really not that hard to do a simple search of Snopes or Quackwatch to know how bogus these things are. Thank you again.

Thanks guys I came back to delete it, so done.

Yes I still think I�m feeling good, I hope it stays that way, it was sure good for PR at my work, back to my old self, but did any of you have only 6 Cisplatin smaller doses and feel good, they say I will not loose my hair, as well or is this just a fluke and I can expect to go down hill again, even with this less harsh treatment.


The doctor said if I can drink minimum of 3 Lts of water a day, I stay high, if not each week they will give me 2 hours of Rehydration, so I'm ever hopeful. 5 weeks to go next week.

Jon,

Please update your Signature Line so we can easily know where you are in your Tx.

I had 3 Cisplatin doses and as with you alot of hydradion each time. I went back to work each day after Chemo and felt fine (it was tax season). Just drink alot of water. As far as loosing hair - mine thinned out but it was not noticable to anyone but those who knew and were looking for the thinning.

Hats off to you Carmen....I was fortunate to have my Tx in the summer and had 5 months or so to recovery before tax season. There is no way I could have been competent (watch it Margaret) trying to prepare tax returns during my Tx.