Grandma Brown starts her fourth chemotherapy treatment today. That means she's 1/3 of the way done.
We read a report on a study about fasting prior to chemotherapy treatments. It appears that when a patient fasts for 48 hrs before the chemo infusion, it puts the healthy cells into "survival mode", something that the cancer cells don't have the abillity to do. this means that more of the drugs go to the cancer and less to the rest of the body. This helps in two ways; first it means that the side effects for the healthy cells are lessened, and that the doctors will be able to increase, or even double, the amount of chemo that each patient can tolerate. The research looks really promising, and since it can't hurt, Chris and I are fasting before her treatments.
We were thinking about visiting Yellowstone this weekend, if the snow stops. We'll just play it by ear. We're hoping Peggy & Preston will come up from SLC and go with us. (Won't that be fun!)
1 comments:
Mom you are so cool! I really look up to you (well I always have)as you are going through all this and not even skipping a beat. I hope your week goes well and the side effects don't get to bad. I am looking forward to seeing you next week, get your party hat on!
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