Today was a very busy day for us! Josh has his weekly Bleo treatment this morning at 9am. Once we got into the office we noticed that Josh had hair all over his shirt. Yep, his hair started falling out bad today! Dr. Schertz was concerned about Josh’s blood counts, they are down some. He …
Category Archives: Life in general
Another surgery
Yesterday we had a consulation appointment with Dr. Tershak at Carilion Ambulatory Surgery regarding Josh’s port. He will be having surgery next Monday at 10:15 to put the portacath in. This will be a great surgery since Josh is so scared of needles. The next appointment is this Friday for the weekly round of chemo. …
Neulasta shot
Josh got the neulasta shot on Wednesday. It’s supposed to bring his WBC count back up closer to normal so he won’t be at such a high risk for infection which is really important since I work in an er. Wednesday was also supposed to be my first day back at work since last Thursday, …
Chemo: Round 1 / Day 5
Tuesday was an exciting day for us since we were coming home! After Tuesdays chemo treatment Josh will get a 3 week break except for the 1 treatment that he gets every week. We didn’t really like the nurse that day, she was young and we both wondered how she made it through school because …
Chemo: Round 1 / Day 4
Today Josh went to xray at about 7am for a brain scan to make sure there is no cancer in his brain. We have been waiting on edge all day awaiting the results. We finally got them at about 6—its good! There is no cancer in his brain! Our excitement was short lived however….about 10 …
Chemo: Round 1 / Day 3
Sunday was an okay day. Kobie came with my parents to visit, that was nice even though he was a little scared of daddy with all the tubes, etc on daddy. He did LOVE daddys bed though–LOL! This post was posted on Tuesday June 10, 2008 at 9:08AM
Chemo: Round 1 / Day 2
Saturday Josh started to feel a little sick. Thankfully he has not thrown up yet but he really hasn’t ate anything either! He slept almost all day saturday. This post was posted on Tuesday June 10, 2008 at 9:06AM
First oncologist appointment
So Friday at 7:15 we had our first oncologist appointment. I must say after we thought about going to about every different oncologist at Blue Ridge Cancer Care and a few at Duke thankfully we found one that we both like on the first try…out of sheer luck too! We hadn’t considered Dr. Schertz but …
Surgery follow-up
We went for a followup from the surgery on Wednesday, June 4, 2008. We got the staples removed and the results of the biopsy of the testicle that was removed. The cancer is stage 3 (there are 3 stages in testicular cancer) nonseminoma germ cell tumors. In testicular cancer there is seminoma and nonseminoma. Seminoma …
First surgery
We had to be at the hospital at 10am for the surgery. My dad went with me so I wouldn’t be so bored. They didn’t take him back until about 12:30. Surgery lasted about an hour. The doctor came out and talked to me when it was done, I really liked him…everyone else was getting …