Posts Tagged ‘chemotherapy’

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Houston, Round 5 of Chemo

Just got back tonight from another visit to Houston. I flew down on Wednesday night on what has become the same set of flights as almost all of my visits to M.D. Anderson. Upon arrival I was given a gigantic, white police car (i.e. crown victoria) to drive around instead of the tiny economy I [...]

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Three Years Ago

Just a quick post to say Happy Valentine’s Day to those of you who are celebrating. As you probably know, for me this day is more about my anniversary than anything. Three years ago at about this time I was back in my hospital room after finishing up surgery. It seems like forever in some [...]

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First Week of Chemo, First Infusion Complete

Saturday marked the end of my first week of chemotherapy. Based on my experience with it in the past I thought I’d have all sorts of horror stories to share, but it went fairly well. Starting Monday night and ending Friday night, I took Zofran at 5:00p and 10:00p, then took the actual chemo drug [...]

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Chemotherapy Starts Tomorrow

It’s been another crazy week… this one in preparation of starting chemotherapy tomorrow. Since I need someone closer than Houston to be overseeing me while on chemo, it took a lot of calling, a doctor appointment, prescription transferring, etc., to get me ready for to start. When I got back to work last Monday I had [...]

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Final Update From Friday

Well, the week is over. It’s Saturday morning and I’m just trying to get my stuff packed before heading to the airport. Dad is already at Hobby, taking a different flight home. It suddenly dawned on me that I have staples in my head so it will be another fun experience in airport security with [...]