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Archive for January, 2008

Sabe chemo

(What did Tonto say when the Lone Ranger asked about his wife’s cancer treatment?)
The drugs are all in now. Tuesday was rough, as we didn’t manage to stay on top of the nausea. Yesterday we upped the doses of some anti-nausea meds and the evening and night went better. Today we’ll also [...]

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Starting to fight back

The first day of chemo is almost over. The drugs are a shock to the system, inducing nausea, anemia, lack of appetite (hair loss and immunosuprresion will come, too), but it is good to know that the tumor cells are beginning to encounter some resistance. We’re hoping to keep the side effects under [...]

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Hello world!

Hi everyone! Welcome to Rebecca’s blog world! Our latest news is that Mom’s chemo has been postponed and will now start on Monday morning- we all have our fingers crossed. We expect the first few days after chemo to be pretty rough, with Mom gradually feeling better until about a week or so after the [...]

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