This week was round three of chemo. Paul has reacted pretty much the way he has from the beginning except that he gets tired more often and faster. He carried some pictures in from the garage to see where I wanted to put them and that was about the extent of his energy for the day.
Tuesday was the first day of chemo this week. Paul goes in for blood work first then he talks to the doctor and then he has the chemo. The cancer center is kitty corner from the temple and Tuesday is a long day for chemo so Paul dropped me off at the temple so I could go through a session while he was getting chemo. When I finished and walked over to the cancer center I discovered that they were just starting the chemo. The machine had not worked for the blood analysis so they had to wait for that first. They eventually got it working but that is why they were just starting when I got there.
In visiting with the doctor Paul mentioned that his fingers were numb. The doctor decided to cut back 45% on the O=vincristine. Since doing that Paul thinks that he has more feeling in his fingers. This is something that could become permanent so we are trying to prevent that.
Paul is in good spirits and from outward appearances you would not know that he has a very bad disease. This next week we will be learning about bone marrow transplants. Stay tuned.
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