Day 121
Things have been going very smoothly these days. Jackie has chemo #7 coming up the end of this week. She has been gaining her strength each day. Her hair is actually growing to the point where she is needing a haircut. She works 2-3 days a week and has full energy to cook a delicious dinner. Everything is going the way it is planned. Now if all is well, Jackie should be done with chemo in 3 weeks and move on to radiation planning. Radiation can last anywhere from 3-5 weeks. It is a M-F job with the weekend to recuperate. The most stressful time of radiation will be the planning and execution of the process. In today’s modern world the doctor’s can use many different CT and PET scan to determine the size, depth, and shape of the residual mass. The plan of attack is to wipe out any cancer cells left with the minimum amount of long term side effects. But before all this can be done Jackie needs a scan to determine how much the chemo effected the lymphoma. I am counting the days to find out her progress from these last 4 months.