6/13 - Cycle 5 Update

I'm back online with a newly reformatted hard drive and an updated immune system for my computer including anti-spy, anti-virus and anti-phishing software. Hopefully this solves the problem and doesn't further disrupt my ability to blog.

As for Kristine, she began Cycle 5 this past Monday, receiving her own download of anti-phishing software in the form of chemotherapy. Monday began as it usually does. We meet with Dr. Staddon first to discuss Kristine's condition and then it's off to the treatment area to begin the five hour treatment process. And, as seems par for the course on these Monday mornings, we began with issues accessing Kristine's port. Despite our 9am arrival time the troubles with the port held up Kristine's treatment until about 12am. This makes for a long day. We closed the treatment center with the nurses at around 5pm only to have to go home and administer the rest of Kristine's IV medication, a process that would end around 1:30 in the morning. Fortunately though both ports were accessed without too much pain for Kristine, including the access point that couldn't be used at all in all last cycle.

Our meeting with Dr. Staddon on Monday morning focused mainly on our prior Wednesday discussion with Dr. Bridges, the cardiothoracic surgeon to whom Staddon referred us. Which brings us to a recap of our meeting that I have not yet written about. However, I will have to leave you in suspense. Although I'm sitting right next to Kristine while blogging, she believes that me on a computer is as good as her being alone. So you'll have to excuse me, I have feet to rub. I'll try to get around to our appointment with Dr. Bridges sometime later this week.