So yesterday was a rather eventful day. We thought we were going to be in and out of the dr. but apparently the business side of things had other ideas. We finally met with the Physician Assistant to Dr. Tannir, her name is Zeta. She went over Jason's most recent cbc ( complete blood count) and told us all of his numbers like white blood count and red blood count look good. We will probably start seeing the numbers falling this weekend. We then saw Dr. Tannir and he looked at the area were Jason's tumor was and was quite happy that you could no longer visibly see the bulge nor palpate the mass. This along with Jason being in quite a bit less pain makes us reasonbly sure that the cancer is responding very well to the chemotherapy. We hope that by his next appointment that he will be able to come off all pain medication.
He also had his first outpatient round of Bleomycin. That was a breeze compared to the inpatient chemo. We walk in start an IV, about 20 minutes late walk out. He is doing pretty good, complaining about "funny tummy" but no nausea, he's tired but resting when he can. I believe some of the steroids are giving him insomnia, he gets to stop those for now so that should help. Some of his friends came out to see him today and he was quite a bit perkier for a while. It was nice for him to have a little bit of normalcy. Again, thanks for your prayers.
Kimmy
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