Yesterday I met with the nurse practitioner to see how I was doing. Things are progressing but very slowly. I still can not swallow and all nutrition comes through the PEG tube. This has become a bit of a challenge with regards to maintaining my weight. As of this point I have dropped about 30 pounds. Unfortunately the liquid diet stuff they have me on has a limited amount of calories. In order to maintain my weight I need to take in 8 eight ounce cans during the day.
Given that I am still having a problem with the mucus and that leads to other issues such as sleep and keeping food in they decided to postpone the start of the final three chemo treatments another week. They want me healthy enough at the start so that I can go through the treatments without taking a break. I was concerned about delaying the treatments and the effect on the cancer but at this point they did not consider that an issue.
So for now the game plan is more of the same. Just keep going day by day getting better. For now the next wave of assault gets another week off.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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