In any case, I have to switch treatments to a less toxic one. Now instead of Epirubicin, I will have Methotrexate. The other two drugs (Cyclophosphamide and Fluorocil) remain the same. 1 - 1.5% of the people on Epirubicin will experience a decrease in heart function, and I am lucky enough to fall into that category.
There won't be much of a change - I will have my last four treatments of CMF instead of FEC, and will still finish at the beginning of May. One good thing is that Methotrexate does not cause total hair loss.
I'm picking up Mom this afternoon and she's spending the weekend with me. She's coming with me to my treatment tomorrow along with Lucas. I see a morning of "Crazy 8 Countdown" in my very near future.
On a side note, it snowed like crazy yesterday afternoon and evening. 43 cm (17 inches) of snow fell on us in a very short amount of time. School was cancelled - yeah. Go ahead and make fun of us, but honestly, no one can drive around here. Norm picked up Lucas from church last night and he saw a taxi making a u-turn in the middle of traffic, people backing up, and others passing on the wrong side of the road. It's chaos. Plus, it takes forever for the city to send out the snow plows. Norm had to come home from work to take me to the doctor this morning because our lane was not plowed. The snow was so deep that there's no way the van could get through. It is a joke. I thought spring was here. What is going on? It's February 26th for Pete's sake. I was getting used to the smell of hyacinth in the air. Now the poor things have been crushed under a mound of white stuff.
Here are some pictures of what Nanaimo looked like last Wednesday, before the snow. I took these on my way home from taking Lucas to skating in the morning. The first two were taken at Departure Bay and the last two were taken at Piper's Lagoon.
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I'm glad you are moving forward again! That first picture of is magic.
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