Tomorrow we're going to forget about today
Tomorrow we're going skiing in the middle of the week. It'll be the last trip of the season and a good memory for the three of us. Better than today.
We saw Carolin's main oncologist this afternoon. We like her even when she's running an hour and a half late. She had some ideas to help with hot flashes, got updated on the radiation plan, advised on where to go to get the incipient lymphodema (bloating left arm) looked after, and scheduled the Zolidex shot (anti-estrogen) for Thursday. Busy enough but not the unpleasant part.
She told us that the ultrasound found a lot of lumpy lymphnodes above the collar bone, not just the 8mm one the ultrasound tech mentioned. As they are in the near-neck region they cannot be taken out. Too many nerves and they're hard to see. We don't know if these lumpy nodes are cancerous. So the plan is to get the 5 weeks of radiation and see if they shrink. If they don't shrink then Dr. Hicks says we'll look at them some more. Maybe do some more chemo.
She must like Carolin bald.
We saw Carolin's main oncologist this afternoon. We like her even when she's running an hour and a half late. She had some ideas to help with hot flashes, got updated on the radiation plan, advised on where to go to get the incipient lymphodema (bloating left arm) looked after, and scheduled the Zolidex shot (anti-estrogen) for Thursday. Busy enough but not the unpleasant part.
She told us that the ultrasound found a lot of lumpy lymphnodes above the collar bone, not just the 8mm one the ultrasound tech mentioned. As they are in the near-neck region they cannot be taken out. Too many nerves and they're hard to see. We don't know if these lumpy nodes are cancerous. So the plan is to get the 5 weeks of radiation and see if they shrink. If they don't shrink then Dr. Hicks says we'll look at them some more. Maybe do some more chemo.
She must like Carolin bald.
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