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Hip Hip Hooray…It’s Chemo Day! 🎈🎈🎈
Heading off to the Chair in a couple hours for first dose of Taxotere (docetaxel). Low dose of 65mg/m2. Will increase to 75mg/m2 for the remainder if tolerated. I told them to put a port in because I am not an easy stick for an IV but, they said they never port on the first infusion in case it's not tolerated. We'll see how that goes.
Had a CT c/a/p late yesterday. No results yet. Have a bone scan tomorrow. Hope I don't puke on the table. 🤮
Very little sleep last night, no not anxious, back is starting to scream again. I'm guessing the bone scan is going to light up from about L3 down. On the positive side, maybe it'll work out and I can sleep in the Chair. I'll report back later. Have a great day, all!
Oh... and in keeping with treatment tradition from last year's RT...
Today's shirt...
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@mjp0512 No way!! He’s still up way too early but my wife aids and abets his behavior so what can you expect?
Our breeder told us flat out: NEVER feed your cats in the morning…now we know why. But we already had two who were used to breakfast so what could we do?
We have another - Tattoo - who will lick, claw and jump on your head if she’s hungry at 2AM; my wife now leaves out a full dish of food when we go to bed and it is licked clean by morning…maybe that would help with Kat?
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@mjp0512 Having my second eye done tomorrow…can’t wait!
Having one perfect eye - and one that’s almost useless - is almost worse than I was with glasses…totally cockeyed!🤪 Phil🤪
@heavyphil - I'm having the second done a week after the first so if all goes well, I should go from blur to crystal clear in about 10 days or so. Good luck with yours!👍
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1 Reaction@mjp0512 Yeah, that’s the usual way…but because of glaucoma, eyeball shape and high potential for detached retina, my Doc wanted to take it slow.
But 6 weeks of wearing an eye patch on and off has gotten old so I am ready.
It’s a gnat on an elephant’s ass compared to what you are going through so I’ll shut up already…
Your crystal clear vision WILL be a big boost to your spirits and make you want to hang around longer to see what you’ve
been missing!😉
Best,
Phil
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2 ReactionsNuclear Medicine - Whole Body Bone Scan 11/11/2026
COMPARISON: Bone scan 9/17/2026. MRI spine 10/15/2026
Impression:
Increased conspicuity of tracer uptake in the lower lumbar spine and sacrum consistent with known osseous metastatic disease. No other convincing sites of active osteoblastic metastatic disease.
Well…if we could change the word "increased" to "decreased", in the first sentence, I think it would be better.
I like the second sentence though. 😁
CT c/a/p done today too. Results not back yet.