April 29, 2013

I realized today that I haven't posted an update in a while...it seems that the past few weeks have just been crazy busy! Ken had his first round of chemo on April 11th. He received two drugs: Avastin (which he will receive every two weeks) and Carboplatin (which he will receive every 4 weeks). So far, he seems to be tolerating the drugs pretty well. The Carboplatin is the harder of the two drugs to tolerate and has more side effects, so he has to increase the steriods and take nausea meds before and for a few days after recieving the drug. The first weekend he was nauseous, and extremely tired, but his symptoms seemed to subside within about 4 days. He's had a few other minor issues, but nothing too terrible so far. He had his second round of Avastin today, which he seems to have breezed right through. The biggest side effect of the Avastin is an increase in blood pressure, and his blood pressure has remained stable thus far. In other news, his latest MRI results were good, his tumor is "stable" when compared to the March 19th MRI, and shows no significant change. His headaches and tremor seem to have subsided as well, and Dr. M. is starting to decrease his daily steroid, which makes me happy. Hoping the rest of the month continues to go well!