New Treatment

Hello All,

Sorry for the late blog I know some of you have been looking out for it all day but late Monday evening we got a call from Nick's Hospital Doctor to say they had his histology report back and they needed to see us this evening! Before I go any further the outcome is still Good to Very Good it just means that Nick's body is going to get an unpleasant pounding of drugs.

After a very long meeting Nick needs to have his treatment changed because it is more serious than first thought now that the histology report has been returned and Nick will be going into hospital on the 21st December 2009 as an inpatient and having some super dooper high intensive chemotherapy drugs to hopefully stop this tumor reaching his central nervous system (CNS) - if it is not already there! A test will be done on the 21st December for this.

If it has not reached the CNS then Nick will still undergo the treatment as a preventative measure. If it is there showing that the cells have already reached the CNS then it will be up to Nick to decide if he continues with the three months of intense chemotherapy! I think right now I will end this paragraph here.....

On the positive side the first cycle of chemotherapy drugs will last 16 days some that will be put into a central line that will remain in his arm for the duration of his treatment and some will be given directly into his spinal cord by a lumbar puncture procedure.

Then as soon as his cell count reaches .1 the next cycle of drugs will be given which lasts for 7 days and the cycles will be alternated for three months.

This is the end of my blog for today I am going to sit and cuddle up to my wonderful husband.

Take care everyone. x