Home At Last

Home at last! Geesh - we are glad this wasn't our first chemo day or it would have been hard to "look forward" to the rest....

Nothing really went wrong - they were just running behind, Matt's labs took forever (see photo of him getting his labs stick, left above), we got to see Dr. H (rad-oncologist) after radiation (see photo left below of Matt wheeling down to radiation from the chemo condos) so everything just took longer than 'normal.' Matt is set up for getting fluids/saline tomorrow and Wednesday, right after radiation - and, as I blogged early, then there will only be two more/final days of radiation - yippee and then some! So FRIDAY is the last day. Matt will be tired but anyone that wants to meet me in the radiation therapy parking lot to give a cheer, let me know.

So far tonight, the good anti-nausea drugs are doing their gig. Matt is feeling sleepy but okay. We realized we forgot to refill a couple of the drugs so Cathy has to make a night run but that's easy as our local CVS is only about a half-a-mile away. Here is to the final week of it ALL (god willing, knock on wood, keep your fingers crossed and keep those prayers coming?!).

Of note: the first round of post-treatment check-ups are now officially scheduled! We are to call Dr. Doogie (ENT) for a check up mid-April (he will make the call as to when Matt gets a new PET scan - Dr. H thinks 4 weeks is actually too early)...and we have an appointment with Dr. Lorrie (med-oncologist) for April 1 (April Fools Day - I can't decide if that is good or bad). As of Friday, it will remain for us a hyper-watchful mode for 6 months (and a few years beyond, it's true) but Matt has done everything right and has gotten good and semi-aggressive treatment so hopefully ...