Wednesday August 5….

It is in the early morning of Wednesday the 5th so bare with what I may say, lol. I am officially half way through Radiation. I saw Dr. Marquez today after my treatment and she showed me exactly where they are treating which was neat to see. So my jaw finally started hurting this afternoon so it may be time for a soft diet. Thanks to so many family and friends, I have that covered. She is adding on area of my spine because it really hurts and it correlates with the PET scan so she will do 1 treatment to that area, may even be that last day, which is Tuesday!!!

As for my home oxygen, I am still waiting to here from the company. It was ordered this afternoon. My O2 on room air resting is about 93-95% and just walking up and down the hallway on room air it drops to 87-88% so I for sure need it. Even more so because we plan to take a road trip before chemo to Reno and Tahoe where the elevations are higher and it is harder to breath.

Well I was discussed at Tumor Board on Monday and Mark Pegram, who is well known and respected by many, brought up a regimen that my Oncologist hadn’t thought of. His thinking is to do a less aggressive approach of Faslodex (it is a monthly intramuscular shot) with Verzenio, a pill that is taken twice a day, then I will need Zomata a monthly infusion that will help with the spread of bone mets. The other more aggressive option is Carbo and Abraxane which is standard chemotherapy given 2 weeks in a row and off 1 week then back on for 2 off for 1. First I must say that I have not had the best luck with injections so to have to get one every month kinda scares me. Also, they don’t typically use hormone therapy like Faslodex in metastatic cancer because it takes too long for the hormone blocker to work where as in chemotherapy, it works within the first week of getting it. Of course there is the option to switch at any point. What a pain in the ass but I have until next week to figure this all out. My first instinct is to go with the more aggressive drug. This is NO time to be all cutesy and say, “oh lets do the easier one”. I want balls to the wall, sick, chemotherapy. That is what I have mentally prepared myself for.

Well I am going to get to bed now and see what happens but that’s the verdict if you’d like to do some research, have at it!!