Last week was Vonnie's last chemo with FEC. The next 12 weeks will be Taxotere. Vonnie had her last FEC on Wednesday (a day early) so she could spend some time with our Tandem bicycle club tour that she and I (Len) have been planning for the past year. Her recovery time from the chemo has been getting progressively longer. She felt good enough to drive herself to Three Rivers on Tuesday and I came up from Shipshewana to pick her up. Our friends were very glad to see her although not as glad as I was. It is rare that we are apart and after four days I REALLY missed her.
Well she did try a short amount of bike riding on Wednesday but that was all she could handle and decided to ride in the tow vehicle the next day. On Thursday her energy started deteriorating and she was developing blisters on her hands and feet for no apparent reason. By Friday afternoon she had enough and we left the bike tour early and headed home by way of the cancer center. The nurse said the blisters are rare but not unheard of. She had her CBC's taken and we determined that her red blood cell count is low. She is very tired and sore all over and has been napping a lot today (Saturday). We hope and pray that now that FEC is over the Taxotere therapy will be easier on her. We never did get the Carboplatin approved by the insurance company and cannot pay for it ourselves either. If the drug shows up on her therapy our insurance will deny all the chemotherapy. At least we finally got refunded the $6500 that we needed to pay for the first session. The check came today.
Well she did try a short amount of bike riding on Wednesday but that was all she could handle and decided to ride in the tow vehicle the next day. On Thursday her energy started deteriorating and she was developing blisters on her hands and feet for no apparent reason. By Friday afternoon she had enough and we left the bike tour early and headed home by way of the cancer center. The nurse said the blisters are rare but not unheard of. She had her CBC's taken and we determined that her red blood cell count is low. She is very tired and sore all over and has been napping a lot today (Saturday). We hope and pray that now that FEC is over the Taxotere therapy will be easier on her. We never did get the Carboplatin approved by the insurance company and cannot pay for it ourselves either. If the drug shows up on her therapy our insurance will deny all the chemotherapy. At least we finally got refunded the $6500 that we needed to pay for the first session. The check came today.
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Thinking of you!
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