Today was injection, infusion, and radiation... and it all went fine. We changed Lisa's "pre-meds" that she has to take an hour before the injection, replacing Compazine -- which made her feel too drugged out, which isn't surprising since we just found out that it is not only for anti-nausea, but also is more often prescribed as an anti-psychotic which Lisa certainly doesn't need -- with Zofran, which is just an anti-nausea medicine. We've been told that both work well against the potential nausea side effects of the Ethyol, but in part because Zofran is more expensive, Compazine is usually prescribed. When talking to the doctor today and telling him we'd changed to Zofran (we had a small amount as a backup to use with the first chemo series, but Lisa never needed it), all he told us was "most people tolerate Compazine well, but that's fine". Of course, no one gave any info about Compazine's other uses... we had to research that on our own.
It's around 7pm right now, and so far, so good.
The primary oncologist today told us that after the seven weeks of radiation are completed, there will be no planned treatments for two months, and he prefers to wait that long before doing diagnostic rescans (CT and PET) to determine "what's next".
Michael
