Let's Get This Show on the Road!

Well, our oncology appointment for Tuesday was put off until this morning at 10:15 due to the fact that Dr. Maisel had not gotten the results from tests he had sent to the Mayo Clinic back yet. So yesterday turned out to be just a "hang-out" type of day and then we went last night for the steak dinner we never got to have before all this started! It was so good! It had been years since we indulged so and afterward we came home and watched "our shows" (Biggest Loser and Parenthood--tonight we catch up on AI and get to watch the results show right after that--gotta love DVR)!

So this morning we went to the Dr. appointment, only to find out that they still didn't have these results back! Ugh! Dr. Maisel said it's impossible to rush them as much as he'd love to, but that we also want them to be correct. We totally get that. Now he thinks Friday is the day they will shoot for them being finished.

However, he's as tired of waiting around as we are, knowing how aggressive this is and that Eric's neck could start growing even larger at any moment, thus impacting his ability to breathe (kind of important!). So tomorrow, we are going ahead and starting a cycle of chemotherapy called R-CHOP that is mostly for the Large B Cell diagnosis. He said it won't hurt, even if we have to switch over to the drastically different treatment for Burkitt's in the next few days, as it includes several of the drugs he would need for Burkitt's anyway.

If we get to stay on R-CHOP (with the Large B Cell diagnosis), it will be one infusion every 21 days and we do that 6 times. Wow. That's the lesser of the two evils and the best we can hope for. Burkitt's is quite more involved and requires several days of a different type of chemo in a row, then a week in the hospital for more drugs and spinal tap chemotherapy, then a week at home--and doing this cycle 3 times. Not so fun.

So here we are, about to "get this show on the road"! Eric dropped me off here at the house this afternoon, while he is going to work the rest of the day and plans on working all day Friday. This morning, not even 10 minutes before we left for Dallas, he was in the back yard, killing weeds. He is strong and completely willing and ready to fight, as long as there are a few more steak dinners along the way!

I'll update soon and I may even throw a card in the mix here in the next few days! Keep thinking those happy thoughts, ya'll!
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