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How do you, as a parent, deal with the anger? Son has sarcoma
Caregivers | Last Active: Feb 2 5:21pm | Replies (16)Comment receiving replies
Our son just turned 29 in Sept. He underwent 14 cycles of intravenous chemo via a port. It was brutal, and there were lots of tears seeing him afterwards. Since the Gleevac is an oral medication and specifically targeted to his leukemia, hopefully side effects are minimal. From what I've read this morning, outcomes with this treatment are very favorable and your local cancer center can certainly manage his disease. I take it from your user name that you live in PA. We live near Harrisburg, so its 5 1/2 hours to where our son resides, and another 3 1/2 hours to Boston, but as you already know, you do whatever you have to for your child, no matter his age.
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That sounds awful to go through for all of you. My son's birthday is September 17th.
Yes we are in PA, in the Poconos, Stroudsburg area, we go to Lehigh Valley Dale and Francis Hughes Cancer Center, we see a Dr Lash who practices at Cedar Crest Hospital and Topper Cancer in Allentown area mostly but travels to our area every month.
He has explained that the gleevac gives good results and is usually well tolerated, but it does list some scary side effects as most medication does. We are doing our best to stay positive.
Are you going to like a Mayo clinic in Boston?