BACK ON TRACK

Had pre chemo today and Sam’s bloods are good enough for tomorrow’s first Taxotere (or docetaxel as it’s also known) session to go ahead as planned. She’s a bit nervous because she’s sort of got used to the side effects of FEC over the last 9 weeks and now it’s back to the unknown. Each chemo session will now only last an hour instead of the 3 hours that we’ve become accustomed to with FEC. The oncologist has warned Sam that fatigue and achey muscles and joints will play a major part in the side effects this time round, although he’s hoping that the side effects will be much less because of the lower dosage that she’s scheduled to receive. They’ve apparently dropped the dosage by 20% so that her bone marrow doesn’t suffer again.

He had the MRI report this time round and he’s said that the tumour has definitely shrunk in size. Only problem was he couldn’t tell us by how much because they never actually wrote any measurements in the report. The tumour has split into 3 parts. One part is barely able to be seen, one part has fragmented and the last part has shrunk quite a bit. It would have been nice to have known measurements and there’s still a lot of questions that the oncologist couldn’t answer, but ultimately it’s great news that we’re on the right track.

In the meantime, tomorrow is back to reality, so let’s see what this new chemo brings to the party shall we.