3 days of down, but one big day of up, up, up.
OK, RICE sucks, much worse than CHOP.
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One down, three to go Well all in all, the first treatment in the hospital with RICE wasn’t too bad. I felt a little woozy when they first set up the IVs, and the low grade naseau is back, but not too bad. One of the medications takes a full 24 hours to go in, [...] Only a few more treatments to go This is going to be pretty short, becuase I forgot about the chemo side effects. I went into the ‘infusion center’ today and got shot up with: Some prednisone (solamide?) like steriod Saline BP 16 (the E in RICE) rituxin On top of that I took a few [...] Well, Tuesday we went out to Stanford and got a second opinion from a world renowned hematologist. Essentially his reccomendations were: Get a bone marrow biopsy before starting chemo Use RICE over RCHOP, 4 cycles Do the bone marrow transplant now rather than later Actually he explained that it was a stem cell transplant really, [...] Lots of fun Yesterday was a pretty great day. I got up and had brunch with Jon and Dopey who went on a banzai trip all the way from Vegas to spend the day. Joe, Ghen, Scum, Ben, and Tom showed up a little later. We hung out for the day doing mostly geeky things [...] |
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