Mike
10-07-2009, 10:54 PM
Tracey was discharged yesterday from Hamilton McMaster Urology and Renial centre. She was happy to get home to her hubby and her 2 year son Luca.
Tomorrow afternoon I am taking her back to Hamilton for her third pharesis treatment. She has four more after that, then they will take the extremely unpleasant shunt out of her neck. Her chemo will be six treatments with a treatment every two weeks.
She reacted badly this time to the chemo. (sickness) It didn't seem to bother her much 5 years ago. She also had an allergic reaction to the pharesis treatment but they just put Benedryl in her IV tube and this seemed to help.
She is taking 10 pills @5mg of Pred each day. Her side effects of facial swelling and bloating are very extreme this time round as well. She is still is anemic and they have been injecting her with Aranesp. (I believe this is what it is) They told her that were trying to avoid too many blood transfusions just in case she needed a kidney replacement further down the road. (not sure why this would be a problem)
The pharesis treatment can only be done in Hamilton. She is also going to be part of a Canadian study group so she was pleased when she found out that there would be no charge for the expensive drugs that she needs.
After that she will be having her IV Chemo done at our local hospital in Guelph.
So thats where we stand today. A small step forward and better than we were this time last week.
I will keep the group updated and again many thanks to all of you for your support and prayers.
(This was Tracey a few months ago before the recent flare up.)
Mike
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Tomorrow afternoon I am taking her back to Hamilton for her third pharesis treatment. She has four more after that, then they will take the extremely unpleasant shunt out of her neck. Her chemo will be six treatments with a treatment every two weeks.
She reacted badly this time to the chemo. (sickness) It didn't seem to bother her much 5 years ago. She also had an allergic reaction to the pharesis treatment but they just put Benedryl in her IV tube and this seemed to help.
She is taking 10 pills @5mg of Pred each day. Her side effects of facial swelling and bloating are very extreme this time round as well. She is still is anemic and they have been injecting her with Aranesp. (I believe this is what it is) They told her that were trying to avoid too many blood transfusions just in case she needed a kidney replacement further down the road. (not sure why this would be a problem)
The pharesis treatment can only be done in Hamilton. She is also going to be part of a Canadian study group so she was pleased when she found out that there would be no charge for the expensive drugs that she needs.
After that she will be having her IV Chemo done at our local hospital in Guelph.
So thats where we stand today. A small step forward and better than we were this time last week.
I will keep the group updated and again many thanks to all of you for your support and prayers.
(This was Tracey a few months ago before the recent flare up.)
Mike
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc211/susanandmikesmall/t.jpg