Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Strep throat X 4

Sorry for the delay in postings, but we have Strep throat in our house. Nico, Noah, Luca and myself all have it. We kindly passed it over to Danny's house as well and Marguerite and James both have it.

Joe had an appointment today and will start his next treatment tomorrow. He will go to the hosiptal for a few hours and receive a dose, then take one home and go back for another one Thursday. He will be started on another treatment that has been shown to help stop the tumor from spreading. His white counts were good, but both his red blood cell count and nutritional counts were down. This means that he will get a shot on Friday and he will continue receiving his TPN feedings daily. We'll see how this different treatment will combine with his current treatment. The Dr did feel though that he tolerated this last round very well. He will get 2 rounds of the new drug, then they will test to see if we are getting any results.

1 comment:

Mona said...

Sorry to hear of the strep throat bug hitting the scigs. Hope you are all better soon...