I started my chemo routine yesterday, and here is what it looks like:
Started with some anti-nausea, not sure what, similar to Zofran.
Methotrexate, 190 mg. I will get this dose every 10 days. Not too daunting. I received 6000 mg 3 weeks ago in the hosp.
Cytarabine, 142.5 mg. I will get this dose every 10 days. Again, not bad. I received 24,000 mg 3 weeks ago in the hosp, over 4 doses.
Today I received Vincristine, 2 mg. I get that with Asparaginase in 2 weeks. I was supposed to get Asparaginase now, but they make very little of it and we can't find any. I had Vincristine to start every month in '05-'07, nicknamed 'numbmeup' for its neuropathic side effect. Made from Periwinkle. Good excuse for the dropsies.
Leukovorin 4x daily to wipe away the Methotrexate. Without this, the methotrexate will eat away the bone marrow.
Dexamethasone, a steroid, 10 mg/day, on top of the prednisone (5 mg/day). So my hip may feel better soon, and my Tourette's Syndrome will be &*%&*%&ing free to roam. Asshole.
Prosiconazole to fight the lung infection, 5 mg liquid 3x/day
Acyclovir to fight infection
Dapsone to fight lung infection (that didn't work)
Prograf to dampen immune system.
So there it is, nothing new under the IV, different doses is all. Not much in the way of side effects yet, a little hormone rage maybe because the simplest task is not simple. Low point will come in a week, so we'll see how low I go.
What is really annoying now is that Dana is having bad headaches, going on 2 weeks straight now. CT scans show nothing, blood tests show nothing, anti-allergens aren't helping, migraine meds aren't helping. This does coincide with when I came back from the hospital, and lingered as Johno moved back, so ...........
Now as far as loving all the polar bears, as avatars for humans, I congratulate Earl on this ability. Everyone loves him, so it makes sense. Unfortunately, I see polar bears in the gulf, shitting all over the place. I see them starting stupid wars, for whatever stupid reasons, and leaving stinking piles for the rest of us to clean up. They want all the other bears locked up, but don't want to pay for it.
They are running scam campaigns here, throwing corporate money at propositions designed to give corporations monopolistic power, and all the people can see is the sleight of hand. I cannot love and value everyone; I am compelled to call out an amoral scumbag when I see one, especially when they are trying to hide behind the flag and the church.
The polar bears are just being polar bears, I agree, and I do love them. It's too bad we can't stop destroying their environment. Some day, we will only see them behind Lexan walls. I love and value this earth, and Earl and Pat and many other humans, but God save us from ourselves and our greed.
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to "ourselves and our greed" I would add our collective stupidity. or high intelligence combined with total lack of empathy. my heart breaks at the pictures of the gulf, and the comparison I try to avoid to medicine's best barbaric attempts to mix all these poisons and potions to keep you a goin.
ReplyDeletebut the practical side of my gemini nature saves me from total sinking spell...and I start to wish you were local. usually I never wish you were here because that would ruin all the fun of writing.
but with the roid rage and tourettes going, I could really use to sic you on the school department.
yeah.
and the people who write little corrections in library books. WTF.
and the stores who think I should apply for membership if I want to be their customer. am I the only person on earth who thought that seinfeld's soup nazi was NOT funny?????
bill harley singing you're not the boss of me, THAT was funny.
ok,
have a nice day and ps. I think Maurice gets a lot of those mysterious headaches, too.
I see BP
ReplyDeleteHas soiled the bed
Not with pee
But crude, instead
The British Pig
Just lost its rig
And left a well
From what we can tell
Is out of control
And taking its toll
On Dixieland
To beat the band
Forty days and forty nights
Have long now passed
We have no rights
Our birds can’t fly
Our fish can’t swim
Our beach is brown
The whole place is down
Barack can’t stop
What BP did
They can’t stop it or top it
Not even a lid
How in the hell
After all these years
Did we not have a fix
To stop these tears
Is it buy-offs, pay-offs
WTF
Barack and all
Out of luck
Keep a goin John Da Man.
Mac
Details
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Could Secret Saudi Spill Hold Fix for Gulf
Chanan Tigay
AOL News
(May 14) -- Even as proposals pour in for cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, one veteran of a massive (and secret) crude spill in the Persian Gulf says he has a tried-and-true solution.
Now if only the people who could make it happen would return his calls.
"No one's listening," says Nick Pozzi, who was an engineer with Saudi Aramco in the Middle East when he says an accident there in 1993 generated a spill far larger than anything the United States has ever seen.
A shrimp boat is used to collect oil with booms in the waters of Chandeleur Sound, La. on May 5.
Eric Gay, AP
A shrimp boat collects oil with booms in the waters of Chandeleur Sound, La., on May 5. An engineer who witnessed a crude spill in the Persian Gulf in 1993 says BP should use a fleet of empty supertankers to suck crude off the water's surface.
According to Pozzi, that mishap, kept under wraps for close to two decades and first reported by Esquire, dumped nearly 800 million gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf, which would make it more than 70 times the size of the Exxon Valdez spill.
But remarkably, by employing a fleet of empty supertankers to suck crude off the water's surface, Pozzi's team was not only able to clean up the spill, but also salvage 85 percent of the oil, he says.
"We took [the oil] out of the water so it would save the environment off the Arabian Gulf, and then we put it into tanks until we could figure out how to clean it," he told AOL News.
While BP, the oil giant at the center of the recent accident, works to stanch the leak from the sunken Deepwater Horizon rig, Pozzi insists the company should be following his lead.
AOL News could not independently verify Pozzi's account, but one former Aramco employee did acknowledge that there was a large spill in the region in the early '90s, and that Aramco had used tankers to clean up earlier oil slicks.
Pozzi, now retired, spent 17 years of his career in Saudi Arabia, part of it as a manager in Aramco's technical support and maintenance division.
Shortly after the April 22 sinking of the Deepwater Horizon, he and a friend, Houston attorney Jon King (with whom Pozzi recently launched a business called Wow Environmental Solutions), traveled to Houma, La., headquarters for BP's response center, to offer up the lessons he'd learned working in the Persian Gulf.
Ever since, he says, the pair's been stonewalled.
When he called the manager at BP in charge of the cleanup effort, Pozzi says he was told "don't bother me."
"He said, 'Follow procedures,' " Pozzi recalls. "He said, 'I'm taking names and I'm going to sue you.' "
Next, Pozzi and King phoned the president of BP and left a message with his secretary. An hour later, though, they received a call from "from a young lady in BP headquarters" who asked how she might assist them. They told her about their plan -- but have received no further contact.
Then, early this week, the duo say they spoke with Capt. Ed Stanton, the Coast Guard commander overseeing a length of the affected coastline. Stanton asked for a written proposal. That's the last Pozzi and King heard from him.
"It sounds so simple that they turn around and say, 'That was years ago. We've got modern technology now,' " Pozzi says. "But their modern technology isn't working too well."
Last week BP lowered a concrete-and-steel
Hey John,
ReplyDeleteI hope you're hanging in there buddy. Let us know how you're doing.
Mac
Happy birthday Pat. Our thanks to crackers. Irish Catholics sure know how to make a bunch of polar bears. xo Earl
ReplyDeletePat,
ReplyDeleteIs today you birthday? Finally 39 huh?
Happy Birthday!!!
Mac
thanks, guys--how did you know where to find me? Early, how far away do we have to stand if the bar is virtual? john, where are you--what's a scarecrow and tin man with no lion?
ReplyDeleteit was a great birt-day
love
pat and gemini alter-ego chi chi