It all started on July 16. My first day of my new chemo - you read all about that in the previous posting. Well the week progressed as expected until the weekend and then it hit the fan. I got hit with all of the negative side effects and my Sat really was pretty bad but we always had Sunday to get better. Well on Sunday I woke up to having my left eye drooping down and looking like I went 9 rounds with Tyson. Nicki called the Doctor on Monday morning and they had me come in right away. After one look at my eye they wanted me to go for a Brain MRI which got set up for Wed morning. I had a Brain CAT 5 days before but now they wanted a MRI. Nicki then spoke to my head oncologist down at memorial hospital and he told me to get into the urgent care center ASAP for the brain MRI well Nicki drove down in a rain storm like a NYC cab driver and within 4 hours I was getting my brain looked at again. We got home at 9 and headed back to Sloan for my second round of Chemo at 9 Tuesday morning. After meeting with my chemo doctor everything was set. I started my next round and within 20 seconds I had the same reaction as the first (read previous post). I must have been doing better since only 3 doctors showed up with 4 nurses within 30 seconds. I have to tell you this really is not fun. After about 3 minutes I told them I wanted to go again, this is called rechalenge. I got a ton more of medicine and in about 1 hour we tried again and this time my body was able to handle the new chemo. The amount of steroids they have given me in the past 24 hours should keep me up for a while.
Well, the battle continues. I did get a call right in the middle of all of this from my Doctor at Memorial Sloan letting us know that the MRI was negative and my brain looked good.
So if you want to know what new - that is about it.
Once again thanks for all of the emails and letters and calls they all really help. Nicki,Dan,Jeremy,Sara,Whitney and even Molly can never express out thanks to all of you
Looking forward till tomorrow
Love Mark
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