Here's a long overdue post and some recent pictures. You can see Sam and Ben goofing around, a pic of Sarah with her hair growing back and also a rare picture of me during our annual trip to see Thomas the Tank Engine at the Illinois Railway Museum. The boys both had a great time despite the rain. Thank God they were selling ponchos there!Sarah is feeling ok these days. Gemzar chemo is hitting a rythm of one week on, one week off. She still gets Herceptin ever week and the 2wks schedule allows her body to keep up with the blood cell production with some booster shot help here & there. I think we've also got the right formula for her nausea under Gemzar - two of the anti-nausea drugs seem to have proven more effective with this treatment so that's a huge relief for Sarah. She still gets some nausea, but it doesn't freeze her in her tracks like at first... and it usually lasts for one or two days.
The plan will likely be to have Sarah get another MRI shortly after we get back from our vacation. We should also have some fresh tumor marker results waiting next week which will hopefully validate that the Gemzar continues to work.
Ben and Sam are getting excited about going to school. Ben will experience First Grade, which he sees as a big deal, and Sam will get to go to Pre-school like a "big boy." :)
2 comments:
Glad to hear Sarah is feeling better somewhat. Hope the tumor marker results are good. Where are you going on vacation? I just got back from Sicily - it was great but very hot. I also just learned I have to go back to europe for work for 2 weeks for the second half of the month, so lots of travel.
Are you guys considering going to the Rice reunion depending on how I am feeling. I think I will go, as will PJ and her Austin Rice friends. - take care - Sharon
That was depending on how Sarah is feeling... i'll blame it on the jet lag... sharon
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