We’ve waited to post on this topic until now because we weren’t sure we’d be going through with it. SIR (Selective Internal Radiation) is a technique for killing tumor cells by infusion of radioactive beads throughout the liver. A specialist in Raleigh has looked at Rebecca’s case and we all believe she can [...]
Archive for December, 2008
To SIR with love
Posted in Uncategorized on December 19, 2008 | 8 Comments »
More Numbers
Posted in Uncategorized on December 4, 2008 | 15 Comments »
The news is not surprising, which is not good. The tumor marker levels have doubled since three weeks ago. So we start chemo tomorrow. The drug we’ll try this time is Vectibix (http://www.vectibix.com/), which is similar in its action to Erbitux. We start tomorrow (Friday) afternoon. This first treatment will [...]
Numbing Numbers
Posted in Uncategorized on December 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Rebecca’s daily health report has been mixed for the past three weeks. She doesn’t have the horrible nausea and terrible headaches, but she does have worsening neuropathy — numbness in her fingers and feet — along with abdominal pain, particularly when she takes deep breaths. She also has some mild nausea and often [...]
