So, we're back for our 6 hour observation session.
Blood work came back normal- no negative effects from the treatment. My levels are coming back up to where they should be after chemo as well. (Oh and PS, my hair is starting to grow back again :-) ).
The only issue I've had recently is a slight increase in the back pain I've had for months. There's no way to know whether it's related to the treatment (they had mentioned before that some people see a sudden burst in tumor growth when they start the medication, which is then followed by a rapid decline, so there's a chance that's what's going on now) or just normal progression of the disease, but either way they gave me an RX for a slightly stronger, longer acting pain-killer, since it mostly affects me at night.
Other than that, everything is good to go, so we'll be continuing treatment for 2 more weeks, and we'll be back here on the 24th just for labs and a visit with the docs- no observation time. Dr. Gounder said it would probably be another month before they do another scan to actually look at the tumors and see how we're doing.
So that's about it for today. Just hanging out, they'll take more blood and EKGs over the next 6 hours, and then we'll head home.
We did forget to talk to them about the Zometa, so I'll have to send them an email to follow up with that concern.
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