currently: @629 (7:07am) on sunday 10.12.08 | 60 hours since last post
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Had chemo today. They took it easy on me, no Avastin this time, because they're trying to get me off that in case they need to do radiation or surgery sometime in the future. Avastin is a drug that attacks and shrinks the blood vessels that feed the tumor, but it's not just the tumor, of course, it's all sorts of other things. If they do surgery on some part of me that's saturated with Avastin, there could be complications.
Anyway, only the Taxol and the Carboplatin today. We'll see how I feel in a week or ten days. They're going to do it again in three weeks, on the normal schedule.
I had an xray yesterday, a minor followup to get an idea of what's going on in there. According to the radiologist, their best guess is that the tumor has shrunken by about half so far, from 8cm to 4cm in the longest dimension. That's good news. If only two more chemo sessions would shrink it the rest of the way. Instead I suspect it's more like Zeno's paradox, splitting in half with every two treatments. At some point it'll be the size of a single atom, and then the chemo will split it and it'll be a 20-kiloton yield, centered in Port Orchard, blamed on Arabs and starting World War III. Actually I suspect if that were the case, It would probably have happened before once or twice.
I still feel pretty normal at this point, but I'm guessing the fatigue is coming down the line like a freight train, that searchlight tracking and the foghorn blowing.
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