Thursday April 10th

Busy day! This morning we met with Dr. Shustov, the UW doctor at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance who specializes in T-cell lymphoma. All 4 of Anno's children where present and he answered all our questions and concerns very knowledgably & in a way we could understand. He feels very confident about this R-EPOCH regimen. He spoke with Dr Fer after we left and agreed on some small changes for mom’s care and a few things to test.

In the afternoon we went to Dr Fer’s office and mom had 3 hours of hydration to help with kidney function. It is very difficult to drink enough fluids during chemo to keep up with the large amount of drugs in the system. Her blood count was good WBC were 8500. We had a long visit with Dr. Fer and planned our next few weeks.

Monday mom goes into Swedish for a minor surgery to remove the cyst on her neck and fix her deviated septum and chronic sinusitis (she can’t wait to be able to breathe!) She will be in overnight with IV antibiotics.

Chemo number 3 will begin April 21st.

She is busy watching the masters this weekend visiting with family. She is diligent with her exercises and looking into using the weight machines in the fitness room downstairs. She has a great appetite and no nausea. Way to go ANNO!

Sarah