AND the Doctor Said.....

At first i think they were gonna suggest more chemo, at least the PA was. But we reminded her that they said 8 treatments. So we discussed this plan. Ted gets the next two treatments of eribitux and avasitin. We come in for the cea levels to see where they are after not having chemo for two treatments. Then we should be able to make an informed decision. OHH yeah....Did I mention.... The CEA levels are 4.1 yeah down from 7.8. Cut in half almost again. YEAH!!!:) So our new baseline is 4.1 (Oh and under 4 is considered normal range) Ted was 4.8 about a year ago in April 06. We will have to see what happens with no chemo treatment and just the other drugs. So far he is doing well. A little tired probably from the benedryl that they give him and just nerves. So we are more then hopeful that we will have a great week coming up and not a yucky one. They tell us he shouldn't have any real side effects with these drugs.
His blood counts were up a little so ( i think it was 30 something) hopefully now that he won't be too nausea he will be able to take his vitamins and that should help get his numbers up.

We see the urologist next friday and see what the plan is about the kidney and stents. They stents work good sometimes and other we have to turn on the nephrostomy. It's and up and down battle with that and we just hope that we can come up with a new solution.

If you have any questions just post and i'll try to answer them. I don't think it will effect anyone but I have the comment option so that I have to approve them before posting. We link this blog with Myspace and I just don't want spam stuck on here. *hugs* to all and Ted says thanks for all the love and comments. Karen