I hope everyone has a wonderful year. My 2009 went out with a rush of trips through the MDACC Emergency Center, and being admitted to the hospital 4 times; once in November for an eye infection, twice in December for pnunemonia, and the last time was for raging heartburn that at first looked like tumors but was ulcers and erosions in my esophegous and upper stomach. These were caused by the Zeloda oral chemo.
Everyone was glad to hear there were no more tumors that it was just ulcers and erosions that could be fixed, rather that the tumors the CT showed mistakenly. After 10 days in the hospital, with a very bland diet and medication the ulcers seem to have healed up or vastly improved as the heartburn has not returned.
I started a new intavenous chemo drug this past week; the name is Vinorelbine. It will be weekly treatments, and so far has showed miminum side effects. My next treatment is this coming Wendesday, but I will see the opthalomigist on Tuesday as my eyes are still in pretty bad shape. At this point I am considered legally blind.
I walked outside and around the farm today for the first time in a month, and felt the sun on my face. I know it has been a month because I fell down in the mud getting ready to go to the hospital for the eye infection at Thanksgiving. I have been dack in the hospital 3 times since then. This is the first weekend I have spent at home since Thanksgiving.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
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