Cancer Champion

Had the first day of chemo and radiation today.  She seems okay, just as much energy as before, but it’s only the first day.

She was a little week kneed about half hour after taking the chemo drug.  We’ll just have to be careful right around that time.  The physician assistant did say to make sure to have lots of water and a good breakfast since she can’t eat for 2 hours before and 1 hour after taking it.

Also, I want to send a big thank you to Alex, one of my best friends who is a post-doctorate at UCLA.  As soon as he found out about Christina’s condition, he helped me get in contact with the director of the neuro-oncology team at UCLA, who is going to take a look at Christina’s reports and MRI to give us a second opinion.  They may have access to more clinical trials there that can help.

We had a somewhat long day at the doctors yesterday, follow up with the neuro-oncologist at 3pm, blood draw and pharmacy right after that, then we were late to the 4 o’clock appointment for a CT scan simulation.

The news is that the clinical trial she was qualified for is now closed due to funding and low success rate.  So, now it is back to just the standard treatment of radiation and chemotherapy.  They (the doctors) have a lot of confidence in the standard treatments, so that’s a positive.