Cycle FIVE Day One Treatment Week One

Today while at the Doctor’s it was pick on the “teenage kid” Poor Sarah……she was sitting on the bed* when the DR came in and I said she’s the patient today---He started in with how he hoped she never was and that she could make sure by eating right (no hamburgers, French fries, taco bell etc) exercising, getting plenty of sleep, not drinking pop (it leaches calcium out of young women’s bones) then we introduced him to the phenomium of young girls cleaning their rooms in the middle of the night cause they can’t sleep----as far ash he knows his daughter never did that.

I have been fighting a sinus infection all week, with a low grade fever, so Keep-er and I have NOT been walking lately. This past week I had both a CT scan and a Bone scan done to see how things are progressing. I saw the research nurse called on Wednesday of last week and she had gotten permission to tell me that the CT Scan was looking good. When I called her about the Bone scan the radiologist hadn’t done ALL the assignment and done a comparison study with the previous ones to see if things were progressing the way we hoped they would be, so I have to wait till next week to get the results from the DR

WBC 4.4 (normal 4.0 – 10.5)
ANC 2.20 (1.80 - 8.30)
HGB 14.0 (12.0-16.0)
HCT 41.2 (34.5 - 45.0)
PLT 348 (140- 375)
Potassium 3.8 (normal 3.5-5.1)

As seen above (no red or stared items) all lab values are with in their normal ranges. The CT Scan shows **Slight interval reduction in size of the target lesion #1** The Bone Scan show ***abnormalities on the right side of L3 and in a focus on the left iliac crest have not changed significantly on the bone scan, and there is NO evidence of any new abnormality. *** the Chemo is working YEAH TEAM!!!!! Tonight is Pizza and a Movie night. Tonight’s movie is *God said Ha!!* Julia Sweeney tells the viewers the monologue about the hard time in her life when her brother fought with cancer and she was also diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Comic, actress, and Saturday Night Live alumni Julia Sweeney had just moved to a cozy little bungalow in Los Angeles. Her life was buzzing along quite nicely, thank you very much, and she was planning days of writing, evenings of dinner parties and smart conversations, and nights of quiet solitude. "That's when God said 'Ha!'" confesses Sweeney in her monologue-cum-one woman Broadway show and for the next 80 minutes she shares the intimate experiences of an emotionally turbulent year in her life. Her brother is diagnosed with cancer and takes up residence in her bedroom, her parents move down from Washington and into the guest room, and the adult Sweeney is suddenly reliving her childhood in a bizarre nuclear family flashback. The magic of God Said Ha! lies in her loving lampoon of the details surrounding an inherently tragic situation: learning to deal with the foibles of her parents all over again, sneaking a boyfriend into her ridiculously crowded house like an embarrassed teenager, turning her brother's chemotherapy visits into giggly family outings. Sweeney is in total command of the stage, more like a host giving a cockeyed tour of her life than a monologist, and her easy manner and relaxed tone puts the audience at ease. It's a brave, funny, and irresistibly involving film, like the reflective confession of a dear friend sharing intimate details of her life with a mischievous grin. Tragedy has never been so respectfully hilarious. --Sean Axmaker

All in all I would say its been an OK week

~~Jann