I Wanna New Drug...

I went in for my blood draw and doctor's appointment today. It was nice to see my regular UCSF oncologist again. She was all caught up on how things went. I love it when I feel like a doctor has given thought to my case prior to walking in the door. It doesn't happen as often as it should. We started right off talking about the problems I had with nausea. She suggested I try adding a couple more anti-nausea meds to my arsenal. It sounds good to me! So I've got prescriptions for Ativan and Compazine. The interesting (and frustrating) thing is I have both of these in my medicine cabinet from back when I first did chemo. I got them for any "break-through" nausea. I didn't think to ask if I could take them last round when I was struggling. I just assumed that since this is a trial that they wouldn't want me to break with the protocol.

After discussing that she took a look and she thinks the skin on my breast is looking better. I thought maybe I saw the same thing, but since I see it daily it is harder to tell. I looked over all my blood work and that looks good. My counts are continuing to recover post chemo. Some things are still a little out of whack, but nothing crazy.

I am not looking forward to this next round, but I am hopeful that it will go better than the first time. Keep your fingers crossed!

I don't have too much new to report about Keith's mom. Keith is still up in Duluth with her. He will be up there until Sunday. She is still in ICU and she still needs to ventilator periodically. It seems like it is just going to be a long period of recovery for her.