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A little tank jargon in the title. Means the ammunition is loaded and fired, but has not yet hit the target.
Last chemo treatment this morning. Everything went well. While we are celebrating a little, we are saving most of it for once Karen no longer feels the impacts, likely this Friday. The chemo treatment isn't the hard part, it's suffering through the days after. We'll cheer and dance more when that phase is past.
Karen still has a shot tomorrow, then weekly blood tests each Monday, and perhaps a shot to keep her blood counts up, for the next 2-10 weeks depending on how her bone marrow recovers. So her appointment schedule doesn't slow down much yet.
Karen has an appointment with the radio-oncologist this coming Friday morning. From what we heard the treatment should start in 4-6 weeks. That treatment will last 5-8 weeks, every day except weekends. We are scheduling it with the radio-oncologist recommended by her medical oncologist. That will be down at St. Anthony's so she can drive over each day from work. Fatigue is the largest side effect we've been warned about, the severity of which depends on the individual. We'll know more after Friday.
We are trying to decide whether we can sneak away somewhere for a few days between chemo and radiation, since we might not get another chance until Labor Day or later. We are considering a last minute cruise out of Tampa, but have yet to decide. We are also considering some sort of get together/celebration once radiation is finished, likely sometime in September. That we'll have to play by ear depending on how she feels and how quickly she recovers. Perhaps the end of chemo might call for an interim celebratory lunch/dinner gathering sometime in a couple weeks, perhaps at Horse and Jockey or Moon Under Water (Mmm, Boddingtons, mm, Blue Moon Belgian Ale). We'll keep you posted.
That's pretty much this week's update. No more all day Mondays. Yeah!
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