Moving Forward

Today Di and I...and Terry.... went to see Dr. McIntyre, the oncologist, to get info for when chemo starts. She will start July 15th. I think the reality has hit Di. She was a little upset today. Not bad. Just not good. And I want good. She has decided to join in a research drug that they hope is the "New Wave" of curing breast cancer. Basically Di will get 1 of the 3 different types of chemo. It will be randomly picked. T.A.C, T.C. or T.C.B. are the drugs. TAC is kinda the old standard. TC is without the "A" drug and seems to have less Nassau with the patients. Both TAC & TC would be 6 months of treatment. TCB is a year long. The introduction of the B drug is what is believed to be the new wave. It's been tested on other cancers just not breast cancer. Or something like that. I'm basically still processing the information that was thrown at us this morning.

It took almost 30minutes to go over all the side effects of the drugs. Jeezz. I mean rectal bleeding?? WTF? Of course the cancer patients that "B" has treated were originally colon cancer. So it kinda makes sense.

Anywho. Must get back to work!

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