Tuesday, August 17, 2010

We started our new round of chemo yesterday in Wichita Falls at the Texoma Cancer Center. Saw our Wichita Falls oncologist and then to chemo. Received word that the MRI taken last Thursday did not show any cancer in the knee. We are so thankful. Started the oral chemo of Temador and then through IV's we got the Ifosfamide, Irinotecan, and Vinicristine. The only new one is the Temador and we think maybe it is the one that is causing Michael's loss of appetite. Yesterday was a rough one, but think the sickness was from them having to try to hit a vein so many times before they actually got one that wouldn't leak. The iv chemo causes killing of the tissue around the place of leakage if it leaks, so we definitely have to be careful so that the iv doesn't leak.

We are so thankful that we found the new little activation of the sarcoma when we did as we can get a handle on it.

We will be making daily trips to Wichita Falls Monday through Friday of this week, next week and then will have a couple of weeks off before we start the next cycle. We are scheduled to go back for scans the end of September, but will probably have to reschedule since we are going to have two weeks off chemo instead of one as planned.