New Chemo

On Monday, mom began a her new chemo treatment. We spent about 6 hours at the cancer center learning about her new treatment while she received her first dose.

Mom's new chemo treatment will always begin at the cancer center with 2 chemo drugs given simultaneously over 2 hours. Then, a home care nurse will come to hook up a pump with the remaining chemo drugs that will be administered over 46 hours. After the 46 hours, the home care nurse will go to unhook the pump in the comfort of my mom's home. Mom's chemo treatments will take place every other week now. The doctor is planning to have another CT scan done once she's had about 4 cycles of this new treatment.

Everything seemed to go well with her first treatment; however, mom has experienced some nausea. She did go to the cancer center today for another treatment to help with the fluid retention, so she was able to get a prescription for 2 new nausea medications. Hopefully those medications will help. We are really glad that the doctors decided to treat her fluid retention twice a week now. She will go on Mondays and Thursdays for a 2 hour treatment on a regular basis.