Cruising

Love is...... Never having to say your sorry

Day stay
Off to Auckland Hospital to get results and talk with Doctors  to see when next chemo starts
Update this afternoon.

Weight
Colin's weight has stabilised and not increased which is what I thought would happen. Slight drop but nothing major.
Still feeding often.  Weighing at hospital showed a 2 kilo gain but different scales and with more clothes and shoes on.

Treatment
Colin's bone marrow biopsy shows he is in remission after the intensive Chemotherapy.
He begins consolidation chemo on Monday next week and it will be done as an out patient.  He will go in for day stay 3 times a week and there was some discussion about treatment time and dosage.  The consultant Nigel Paton decided to halve the dose probably  due to results and seeing Colin who has lost so much weight.  Only one of the drugs he had before will be given for about an hour.  He should not be so sick hopefully this time round.
The difficulty is that chemotherapy  is not a cure.
Transplant is more positive  but Colin falls into a difficult age bracket where the level of chemo needed is too aggressive.  A decision on how many rounds of chemo at this stage and if he would go for Transplant will not be made yet.

So we go forward with positivity and hope that there will be success and that he can deal with each step as it confronts him. At least this chemo will not be so hard to deal with.