Two in a row…

I’m on a roll now – this week’s treatment went off without a hitch. As a matter of fact I had no side effects to list when the nurse asked how my week had gone. The rash has yet to find a new location to annoy me from and nothing unusual or inexplicable happened, so all is well. So now I have only 6 more weeks to go in this round. It would be nice to be able to do them continuously as I booked some work travel for the period that should be my break.

Treatment itself was uneventful. I slept through almost all of it – let the benadryl take immediate effect and awoke during the final saline flush, so it was an easy afternoon for me. I tried to nap at home, but didn’t seem to need it. So stayed awake into the evening (even helped with dinner preparation) and then slept through the night. This is one of the best (in terms of how I feel) weeks I have had since I began the Erbitux treatments. Could be because my friend Michele is visiting me from NJ and now she’s going to go home and tell everyone there that I am faking it and making up everything I have written these past 5 months –that there is no rash or sleeplessness or anything bad going on. Or maybe her presence is what is keeping all the side effects at bay and she will need to move up here to keep me side effect free.

I’m still taking the Sandostatin twice a day (and have moved one injection to my belly so a few less publicly visible black and blues). I’m still stuck at about 8-10 trips a day, but we are going to stay on this dose for another week before making any more adjustments. The plan is to have me go on the once monthly by the end of September.

Weekend was good. We went to Falmouth on Saturday for the annual running of the Falmouth Road Race (www.sblifalmouthroadrace.com) on Sunday. Pat ran for the third year in a row and finished the 7.1 mile course in 1:00:55, a minute or 2 off his best ever time last year, but incredible considering the 100+% humidity on Sunday. The only good thing about the weather was the lack of sun. He was joined by his cousins Sean & Paul & Kate – all of whom looked great when they ran past our cheering section located at about the 4.5 mile mark. Pictures are coming.

And that’s all there is to say….