Archives for December 2008
More Details from MDA
Published on 31 Dec 2008 at 3:14 pm.
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In keeping with the MD Anderson fiasco-way of doing business, Dr. Kurzrock was roughly two hours late for Maggie’s 11:00AM appointment. And, of course, she came with her clipboard touting entourage. They dialed me in via speaker so I could virtually participate in the discussion. Here’s my report.
Mixed News
Published on 31 Dec 2008 at 1:23 pm.
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The treatment has been working, sort of. Some of her tumors have shrunk while others have grown. Dr. Kurzrock wants to switch to a new experimental treatment that works in a very different way to attack the tumors. The bad news is that the new treatment will require her to be in Houston twice a [...]
MD Anderson Update
Published on 29 Dec 2008 at 9:28 pm.
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The visit to The Wizards has thus far been amazingly consistent with the others, filled with unpleasantries. Maggie, of course, retains her indelible spirit far past the point where I’m fairly certain I would have passed out. In the sarcastic words of Martha May, ah, good times.
Doing Ok
Published on 22 Dec 2008 at 12:34 am.
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It’s been a week since I last posted. I can’t look back on anything particularly remarkable that’s happened. Most notable, Maggie is definitely having much less nausea. Hurray for that! We’ve been much more disciplined about taking the preventative nausea meds on time so that might be it. Or the new IV pain med fyntenal [...]
Hurray, Maggie is home!
Published on 14 Dec 2008 at 9:53 pm.
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Maggie and her mom arrived about 4PM-ish and Maggie looked bad. She barely slurped upstairs into the bathtub where she sat silently for maybe two hours. Next, bed rest. I don’t think she got out of bed until well past 6PM. We camped out in front of the TV for the evening. It was relaxing [...]
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MDA #2 – The Rest of the Week
Published on 12 Dec 2008 at 11:00 pm.
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All Tuesday night there were numerous interruptions, someone came in about every 30 minutes, then around 7am Wednesday a crew arrived to take Maggie to her procedure. There were five of us walking together down the hall, riding in elevators, and rolling across a sky bridge above the 2nd floor atrium. It felt like a [...]
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Headed Home Tomorrow
Published on 12 Dec 2008 at 3:48 pm.
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Maggie comes home tomorrow. It’s been a rough trip on her and me. Tough for her because, well, it’s tough what she’s going through. Tough on me because I’m too far away to comfort her during times when she needs it most.
Day One of Round Two @ MDAnderson
Published on 9 Dec 2008 at 9:51 pm.
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Today went very smoothly. Maggie breezed through her morning appointments and got a room by 11:45pm. She has learned to ‘work’ the MD Anderson system.
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Found the Dose
Published on 5 Dec 2008 at 11:00 pm.
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Our little experiment to find the most appropriate dosage of pain meds worked. Unfortunately, it wasn’t zero. It’s somewhere around 0.5 mg/hr. Hey, that’s a significant amount less than the 1.3 mg/hr we were suckin’ down just week before last! We take that to mean that the treatment is working, by darned. And next week’s [...]
Steady as She Goes
Published on 2 Dec 2008 at 6:30 pm.
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All is stable at the Weaver Household. At least stable as compared to the last few months. Looking back since October 17th, the day Dr. Loukas told us that the chemo treatments were failing to keep the tumors in check, I realized we’d spent nearly 100% of our time dealing with issues associated with treatment. [...]