CHANGE IN LOU'S TREATMENT
Wednesday we met with Dr. Hancock, Lou's oncologist, who was concerned that the CA125 increased meaning that the tamoxifen wasn't working. He prescribed etopside that is a chemo medicine that can be intravenous or taken orally. She will take the capsules once a day for 21 days and lay off a week to check her blood. She asked and Dr. Hancock that she would probably again lose her hair in about 6 weeks, which is not what Lou wanted to hear, but has resigned herself. She said that she will just go bald and not worry about covering up. She hopes that this chemo will work without having to go back to the carboplatin routine.
Mary Kathryn drove us from her house to the doctor's office. We got to have lunch with her and our son, Mark at Hedary's where we could eat the buffet so that Mark could get back to work at 1. MK then drove us to Cokesbury in the same shopping center where I picked up Sunday School literature. She then drove us to 4113 Fairmount to look at the house that Ashley and Ross have bought and will be moving to soon. It is a very attractive white brick front with at nice porch and deck in the back. It has a circular drive in front and the only drawback is a carport in place of a garage.
It was raining when we left home and we drove in and out of showers. When we got back home at 3:30 we had 0.25" in the gauge. We have had about a total of 5" for the last several days and most soaked in. The spring is still dry when we walked this morning. The last rain did immediately have runoff so the ground is fairly saturated and future rain soon may reactivate the spring.
Tomorrow we go to Denton for a long day while Lou attends the TWU Regents meeting. I will take my laptop and write up the minutes of the meeting at church that I chaired tonight.
Wednesday we met with Dr. Hancock, Lou's oncologist, who was concerned that the CA125 increased meaning that the tamoxifen wasn't working. He prescribed etopside that is a chemo medicine that can be intravenous or taken orally. She will take the capsules once a day for 21 days and lay off a week to check her blood. She asked and Dr. Hancock that she would probably again lose her hair in about 6 weeks, which is not what Lou wanted to hear, but has resigned herself. She said that she will just go bald and not worry about covering up. She hopes that this chemo will work without having to go back to the carboplatin routine.
Mary Kathryn drove us from her house to the doctor's office. We got to have lunch with her and our son, Mark at Hedary's where we could eat the buffet so that Mark could get back to work at 1. MK then drove us to Cokesbury in the same shopping center where I picked up Sunday School literature. She then drove us to 4113 Fairmount to look at the house that Ashley and Ross have bought and will be moving to soon. It is a very attractive white brick front with at nice porch and deck in the back. It has a circular drive in front and the only drawback is a carport in place of a garage.
It was raining when we left home and we drove in and out of showers. When we got back home at 3:30 we had 0.25" in the gauge. We have had about a total of 5" for the last several days and most soaked in. The spring is still dry when we walked this morning. The last rain did immediately have runoff so the ground is fairly saturated and future rain soon may reactivate the spring.
Tomorrow we go to Denton for a long day while Lou attends the TWU Regents meeting. I will take my laptop and write up the minutes of the meeting at church that I chaired tonight.
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