Xeloda: A Great Drug
I’ve been traveling the road of Living with Cancer for almost 6 years and for 3 1/2 of those years Xeloda kept me stable. It is a wonderful drug that is taken by mouth not IV so the chemo lab is not in the picture.
Bah Humbug-Xmas Scrooge
For years I have disliked holidays because it’s like you’re being forced to be happy and enjoy! Well you know sometimes I am not happy and I can’t enjoy
To Blog or Not to Blog, That is the Question
Since my last entry I’ve been doing well on my Xeloda treatment. The dreaded hand and foot syndrome is annoying and hard to control but I am familiar with it so I just cream myself and hope for the best. Stomach problems occur at the end of the pill regimen and that is hard to […]
Enjoying My Days in Limbo
Sorry I haven’t blogged for a while but I’ve been kinda coasting while I’m on Xeloda, my present drug, because I feel almost normal on this miracle drug. D-Day (decision day) is about to occur since I am seeing my doctor next week. If Xeloda is working I will definitely stay on it for as […]
Hooray, Time to Celebrate!
I’ve been on Xeloda for one month and I just found out from my doctor my tumor markers have come down 500 points. This is the first time in 6 months that my tumor markers haven’t gone up. I’m so psyched! That’s all of us really need – a little good news! Spring is here, […]
Spring is Here and so am I
Things have been a bit dicey for the last couple of weeks. PET scan showed some progression in my body so my doctor wanted to change the meds. We had a bit of a difference of opinion with regard to what drug I was going to take. One is a rather new drug called Ixempra […]
