Kris, Dave and the Lumps: Round 3, Followup with Dr. Moran for Chemo #1

2009-Sep-8, Tuesday
Met with Dr. Moran. We catalogued the issues we saw with the first round of Chemo: Headache and tiredness the day of, Achy (pain) and run down 3-5 days later, buzzing in fingertips, white tongue 2 days later (Kris noticed this because she had an odd taste in her mouth, when she looked in the mirror, her tongue was sort of 'white' and she was able to brush off what was apparently dead skin), and most recently some minor sores on her tongue. For the sores he gave us a prescription for a mouth wash that helps with them. He said that for the achiness 3-5 days after the infusion, it was ok for her to take the Darvocet she was prescribed for pain after surgery. The rest is pretty much expected or understood (the problems the day of we think were just heat from sitting directly in the sunlight from the window during the 6 hour infusion). Kris' I&R was 3.0 today after they adjusted the dose to 3.5 mg of Warfarin each day. He wants her to go back to 3 mg each day to try and titrate it back to 2-ish (it was 1.4 the last time). Long and short is that things are proceeding nicely, or at least 'as expected' and we will just keep on keeping on.