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Wife Just Diagnosed w/ ES SCLC - What Can We Expect?

Lung Cancer | Last Active: Aug 20, 2022 | Replies (222)
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@rlogan

Thank you Merry.

Happily, Liz was released from the hospital around 5:00 pm today. She is on oxygen 24/7, started Dexamethasone (steroids) every 6 hrs and will be taking Eliquis (anti-clotting medicine) after her biopsy on Wednesday. In the mean time I am giving her an injectable blood thinner with a biological half-life of only 12 hrs. We have timed her injections so that it should be essentially gone from her bloodstream by the time of her biopsy. The every 6 hrs steroids are going to take a little while to get used to waking up in the middle of the night to administer, but such is life...

Hoping for a quite Tuesday and informative Wednesday.

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Merry, Alumni Mentor | @merpreb | Mar 15, 2022

Bob- Please double check to see if "every 6 hr. steroids" includes night time too. Every 6 hrs usually means about 3 ties a day, until you go to bed unless the directions say round the clock or the like!

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