#7 and counting - posted by Pierre

Today is chemo #7!

We met yesterday with her oncologist for her monthly meeting and checkup and everything seemed OK. The one thing he did say, in response to Laura noticing that the swelling of the lymphnodes had gone down since starting chemo was that lymphoma will immediately respond to anything. Even if they just gave her steroids and no chemo, the swelling would go down. The trick is to make sure that the lymphoma responds totally, that is, goes away completely. And that we won't fully know until the PET scan after all her treatments are done. Although, her CAT scan and gallium scan in the next few weeks will give us an idea of how things are progressing.

For chemo #4 & 5 Laura was getting an extremely painful arm (in the one that chemo went into intravenously) for several days. Fo her last chemo, #6, the nurse at the cancer clinic switched up the order that the chemo drugs go in. It changed everything. The pain didn't materialize like the previous times. So she requested the same order for today. Hopefully it works again!