Rocket Dog Molly

December 10, 2006

First, I would like to apologize for taking so long to get this on board. We arrived home from the hospital a week ago yesterday, took a day to settle, welcomed my Dad and stepmom on Monday, parted ways on Friday morning (they for Ohio and me for St. Louis), returned home about 7:30 Friday evening, welcomed my son, daughter-in-law and grandson at about 8:00 and my girls returned home from their grandmother’s, all pretty much simultaneously. Yesterday we visited, shared pictures, ran a few small errands and such. Which brings us to here we are!! I thought I would attempt to get an entry in before the household starts waking and moving about.

Now, to explain the title. For those of you who have not seen VanHelsing (and I can say I include myself although I did watch it somewhat casually), he is a monster fighter (Frankenstein, Dracula, Werewolves etc). I was trying to think of something to call this entry and I decided since we are now to the battle stage, that would work as well as anything else I am able to come up with at the moment (anesthesia, ya know, affects the ability to think and concentrate – I swear!! Hence the lack of creativity). At any rate, (for Les Mis fans and to quote Enjolras) the time is near! The plan is this: Chemo begins this Friday. It is a three week cycle with chemo being given on days 1 and 8. Day one will be the rougher of the two with it taking four hours to run in. It will be through an IV and through the abdominal port both. Day 8 should take less time. I will need to see the doctor in the morning prior to the chemo so we will be going to St. Louis on Thursday evening and spending the night before and then also spending Friday night down there, at least on the Day 1 of the cycle. We are planning on staying Friday night on day 8 also at least for the first one till we know how I am going to react to the treatments. The doctor did say the intra-abdominal chemo is more effective but it is also very rough. There have been some patients that could not tolerate it and had to stop. They also said there have been some patients that played golf throughout their treatment. That will not be me – I don’t play golf. At any rate, it is impossible to know exactly what we will do yet. Can’t tell until I actually experience it. The doctor was very encouraging in that she said it is the “garden variety” of ovarian cancer. Strange expression huh? Basically, she is saying that it is the most common kind of ovarian cancer, nothing exotic or unknown, so the treatment has been around and it is the one that there is the most experience and studies with. This is a good thing. I found myself thinking it ironic that it would be the “garden variety”. That will teach me not to have a garden next year. She also reiterated that they got everything visible (it was even in the appendix), and that the spot on the liver was extremely superficial and not involving the liver (which was supported by the pathology report). They are classing me at a 3C level out of 4 in the staging. Anyway, I hear stirring about and the sound of my grandson. I will close for now as we have plans to take Cole to see Santa Claus and finally put a few decorations on the tree. Might look a little more like a tree that way. Love to you all – will check in as soon as I can. Hopefully, I can get Cheryl the computer whiz to help me fine tune this bloody computer a little so it is not so excruciating to get on here and make entries. Is slower than molasses in Alaska and the cursor likes to place itself randomly in the text even while you are typing so if there is anything that doesn’t make sense I attribute it to this stupid computer (I swear Michele – I didn’t do it)! I really did try to proof this as best as possible.

Love,
Lisa

Lisa

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