Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Wednesday, August 29th

Well, this may be a hard report. There is more that I don't know than I do.

For the second time, I developed a pain in the left side of my stomach and chest about three days after the last day of chemo. We did CAT scans of the area and (thankfully) found no damaged organs. So, while the source of the pain is not determined we do know it is not being caused by something that would make us stop treatment. Just chemo; just deal with it. It does interfere with golf, though. Oh, well...

Dr. Doty and I agree that the lymph nodes are smaller, though no current scans confirm this. The real test will be the comparison between the 08/14 scan and the one we will do about 09/19. That will tell us the plan for the rest of the year. I still think we'll do 2 more chemos after that and start SCT about mid November.

I'll keep you posted.

RICK

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