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Rough start to Chemo Regimen

Esophageal Cancer | Last Active: Apr 15 2:42pm | Replies (8)

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@stever1

Cudos for you an your wife advocating for yourselves. Always do this. The nurse should have been thanking you. It would be a medical error if they gave you potassium if your level was at 5.6. Glad everything went well.

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My wife is an advocate, but she's also a retired RN, so she's pretty keenly an advocate of nurses/nursing generally--and particularly with the nursing staff at Roswell Park in Buffalo, which has well-deserved honors and ranking nationally. When I returned to coherency early today she explained the rationale behind our nurse's treatment strategy, including the realization that the potassium issue and the associated fact that I cannot swallow anything, even water, from esophagus to stomach, meant that dehydration was a real concern and almost certainly contributed to my first treatment reaction. So the second was preceded with an H2O feed among other things and the procedure was a success.