Treatment Update:
Yesterday I meet with both Dr. Melnik, my surgical oncologist along with her chemo nurse and Dr. Timek my plastic surgeon after starting my day with infusion. Busy day.
All appointments went pretty well. Dr. Melnik decided to reduce my chemo amounts and now formulate the three types of chemo that I receive every three weeks to my body size rather than protocol because she believes I physically took way too big of a hit with round one. She was confident that this is still very effectively fighting my cancer and shouldn’t add rounds to my treatment course. The good news is that both she and her chemo nurse Marianne believe this will greatly impact how I feel after round two this coming Monday, which does make me dread it far less. I’ll be honest it’s hard to know that although you feel good right now, you’re going to be sick in a few days. It’s like knowing you’re going to get the flu every third Monday, which stinks. But I am feeling far more optimistic about round two after yesterday’s appointments.
The bummer from that meeting is that the crazy watery eye thing I have going on along with some other side effects are normal side effects with my types of chemo and although I can treat it with drops, it’s going to continue throughout my treatment course. So trying to keep my eye makeup on will be fun. Well that and it seems in lieu of my latest port-site infection, both surgeons now agree with my chemo infusion nurses that I am that .01 percent that can and will get every possible infection so no one is taking any chances with me; literally no chances. My hair is officially falling out which I’ll admit is a little sad and I’m being told not to shave it completely like most people do because I’m the .1 percent that will get an infection of the hair follicles. And my plastic surgeon halted all going forward progress mid appointment and decided that she doesn’t want to move forward until after I have finished all chemo treatments. It’s all kind of a bummer, but I know it’s for the greater good and I keep telling myself that as long as they are getting rid of the cancer, I can deal with these minor setbacks.