Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning lots of it!
Today we changed plans slightly. I was supposed to start Chemo today, but prior to that (and it's a good thing) I went in to get "mapped" for Radiation and the Radiation Oncologist decided that because of several factors including my size and the location of the tumor, he wants to change the method of administering the radiation.
He's going to setup a deliverance method (I forget the initials of it) where the radiation is applied from 4-5 different angles and shapes so that it doesn't all focus on the same external place and so that the internal end of the beam is better focused on the tumor. This will give a better chance of having less of the "sunburn" as a side effect. Sounds good to me.
However, this takes 4-5 days to setup the Radiation Machine to do and so Radiation won't start until Monday, 1/19. For this reason, it was decided also to start the Chemo that day because they want them to coincide as much as possible.
Tomorrow, 2pm: I meet with Dr. Crocenzi, another Medical Oncologist, mainly to get a 2nd opinion and to get other ideas if Dr. Chang did not explore them. I suppose I may also choose to move my care to Dr. Crocenzi if I feel more comfortable there. We shall see...
Wednesday, 2:30pm: I am having an MRI at Epic Imaging. In the PET/CT earlier there is some haziness around my lumbar area and they think it is due to minor arthritis types of flare up, but they just want to make absolutely certain.
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