Doctor Visits and Chemo Change

We've had a busy second half of the week and we also had that low pressure system go through Florida. Wow! We got inches of much needed rain, lots of lightning, yesterday a funnel cloud and a three day headache for me.

The bigger news is from Wednesday. Between radiation and chemo sessions, we had appointments with the radiation doctor and the oncologist. Both are very pleased with the results of Janette's treatment. Really pleased. Her back pain is gone. Her voice is stronger and occasionally normal. And she now rarely chokes and coughs from drinking and talking. She was scheduled to end radiation soon, but since she's responded so well, they decided on 8-10 more sessions on her chest on all those affected lymph nodes.

The oncologist also decided Janette had too much nausea with the chemo he had prescribed, cisplatin. So on Wednesday, she had a new chemical--carboplatin. Janette's had much less nausea and food aversion. I'm also not hearing her complain of the other digestive side effects that usually show up by Saturday. Yeah! Wonderful! This is a great change!

Carboplatin does come with other side effects good and bad. Janette will loose her hair, but after 3 weeks of nausea, she could care less. To the good, carboplatin comes each week with 10mg of a steriod in the IV.

Wow, again! Wednesday, Janette was on speed. She saw me dusting and cleaning and so she did a major cleaning and washing on her bedroom. She didn't sleep, but spent half the night thinking about cooking food and the other half cooking and eating it. The pool people came out on Thursday to clean and do minor repairs on the pool filter. Janette was all over the place, squatting at the curb and working with the street drain, cleaning and moving stuff around the patio, bustling here and there as the pool man worked. She did finally exhaust herself, but still sorted papers for hours that evening. Don't worry, she's not overdoing it. Her body wouldn't let her. Moving around and getting her blood flowing can only help her heal and feel better.