Today I went in to discuss what they said at the Cleveland Clinic and Dr. Trehan agreed with the chemo combo that Dr. Pannell suggested. It is 3 days in a row of chemo for a max of 6 treatments but usually only 4. Then she asked if I might want to go ahead and just start treatment today so I said we may as well get going on it, otherwise we would have to wait another week and I detest waiting. She sent us off to have lunch and to come back at 1 p.m. so we did and then I got the first treatment. It’s almost midnight now and I feel fine, hopefully it won’t make me nauseous. I go back tomorrow and Friday at 3:30 and then I will see the doctor again on Jan. 3rd. Wednesday Jan 18th I will begin my 2nd set of chemo a little earlier in the day. Hopefully by then the pain in my right ribs that is almost unbearable will be gone and the nagging pain in my left hip that is making me limp will ease up. I am on Percocet for the pain and so far it isn’t doing a very good job but I am getting by and only John has actually seen how bad it hurts. Poor guy feels so bad that he can’t take my pain away. He said all he wanted for Christmas was for me to be out of pain. He doesn’t like when I talk about things he needs to know when the reality of it all sets in but some things have to be talked about.

This is a rare cancer, there is no cure, no clinical studies and no experimental treatments. Hopefully the chemo will bring on remission. That is the best we can hope for. It is actually still the same lung cancer, it has just metastasized into the bones. All prayers are still welcome!