On to Chemo...

At our first doctors appointment for chemo, the doctors and nurses explained what drugs wold be used how one might react. Tons of information. One of the weird things about chemo as we were warned. No sharing of body fluids while on chemo, no kissing, no sex, AND if possible to use seperate bathrooms? Ummm can you so holy cow! If this stuff is so bad why are you putting it in people?? Hello!


Anyway, at this appointment the Chemo doctor recommended my husband go see a big wig doctor here at the University of Florida, Shands, seems this doctor had a surgery he had done in the past to patients with liver cancer, and maybe he could help us! The call was put in immediately to get Myles into see him.

After this Myles went in for a day stay type surgery to have a chemo port put in. This was actually a great idea keeps them from having to put in IV's every time they had chemo.

A few weeks before we were to start chemo we went to our UF surgeon appointment. The doctor explained all the risks involved with this type surgery, even went as far as telling Myles that he may die on the table. If this was something Myles wanted to go forward with and do, then tons of things had to happen first. First being changing his chemo drugs before he started to something stronger, the liver cancer had to shrink before the surgery could take place.

From July 2003 to January 2004 Myles had chemo every other week, on that one day he had chemo he was there ALL day being infused with drugs, at the end of the day they he came home with a waist pouch with another drug that had to be infused over a 24 hour period. Chemo day was a bad day for Myles, feeling horrible, vomiting the works.

CatScans were done every other month to see how the liver was responding to chemo, was it shrinking? December 2003, the cancer on the liver had shrunk by 40%! This was great news! Our next appointment to see the UF doctor was right before Christmas, and he gave us the news that since the liver was responding so great to the chemo, the surgery could now be scheduled, and all chemo stopped as of now! Fantastic news!

Maybe there was a good end to all this after all???