What a rough week! Dad did go in to work this week, and when his Albuquerque oncologist found out, she was not pleased at all. She told Dad that he is on THE WORST chemotherapy regimen out there, and that he needs to be soooo careful. She advised him to stay away from work for a while. Dad still has 3 rounds of treatment, and his body has already taken a beating. He is still weak, but he's much stronger than last week. When he went to the oncologist yesterday he was so dehydrated that they had to give him a saline treatment. His platelet count is extremely high. Normal range is 150-400. Dad's platelets were at 884 on Wednesday. The doctors are confounded. They're doing research and trying to figure out what this means. His platelets were in the 700's in Houston.
He will get his Rituxumab at Hematology-Oncology on Thursday, and he'll enter the hospital on Friday to start the 2nd round of schedule A, R-HyperCVAD (round 3 out of a total of 5 needed). I think that we know now how things roll, and Mom and Dad are prepared for more transfusions and major fatigue.
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