Jessie has been on two new oral chemotherapy medications for almost a month now plus the ATRA for the first 14 days of this cycle. I am told by the oncologist, Dr. Schore at Children's that she will have 9 cycles of oral medicines, each cycle lasts 84 days. I'm not sure how much time in between, so if you do the math just counting her time in each cycle that is a little over 2 years of oral chemo medicine. Each month she gets an examine by the oncology doctor and nurse practitioner and gets her blood work done. Every third visit she gets the added bonus of having a bone marrow check done. Those will be the fun visits deciding whether to let her drive back to college afterwards. I'm not sure about that one!
Jessie said that the medicine at first was zapping all her energy. I was glad to hear last week that she is starting to get her energy back. She has her first "visit" tomorrow at Children's and I am going to meet her down there for that. I think it will feel odd not having gone down there for a while after SO many visits over the last 8 months. I will post again letting you know how everything goes tomorrow!!
Caio for now.
Update: all went well at the appt. her numbers are all good. Jessie is a little nauseous at times from these medicines and spoke to the doctor about tweaking the anti-nausea medicine.
