Yesterday marked the third treatment, which means Allen is now 1/4 of the way finished with chemotherapy! Before treatment, he had a great appointment with The Cancer Ninja. Allen's white counts are still very low, but they had improved from the last blood draw. That shows that while his body is being hit very hard by the chemo drugs (which we want because we obviously want them to get rid of all the CANcer cells), it is still able to bounce back and start recovering before the next round of chemo is administered. The Cancer Ninja was really pleased with how well Allen is able to endure the drugs with very little side effects, and was also happy with how much his mass has shrunk in his chest! Of course he is only looking at the surface (no scans yet), but the change really is remarkable! The biggest test will come after Allen's next chemo treatment; he will have a PET scan to look inside his body to see how the CANcer is responding to the drugs. As we have mentioned before, we want this scan to show NO ACTIVE CANcer AT ALL--aka for all areas to be STERILE!
After our awesome meeting with The Ninja, we headed over for chemo. Of course Allen's port gave us trouble again. Poor Allen, it is stressful enough to have to go through all of this, it would be nice if his port would just work as it is supposed to! But, after a group effort from several of the amazing nurses and some gymnastics on Allen's part to get in the absolutely perfect position, the port did its job. Four hours later we headed home to de-germ and let Allen get some rest. He felt great last night--no nausea or side effects.
This morning Allen hopped on the treadmill (of course)
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| Three treatments down! Someone asked him if he thinks the chemo is making him stronger?! |
and had a great run--something tells me after he is cured he might just leave me in the dust at our next race!
To end this post, we wanted to share a quote that we found early on in Allen's diagnosis that has really stuck with us both:
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think! -Christopher Robin to Pooh
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