I've had 8 of my 12 doses of FOLFOX and have no neuropathy yet. The cold sensitivity is pretty awful the first several days for me, but within 4-5 days I can drink chilled water (not ice water), and almost a week after treatment I can handle things out of the fridge reasonably well (although glass i...

ZX, that's my city! We used to live about a mile from where your photos were taken, and had a view of the water. :) The inner harbor makes for a nice walk on a pretty day. Mob, sorry to hear about your FIL. I hope your MIL is able to join you for your next get-together there, even if your FIL doesn'...

Just got home from the hospital after getting infusion #8. Not so great news. My platelets are down to 96. So they gave me the regular Oxali/Leucovorin dose and also the 5FU take-home bottle, but I didn't get the 5FU bolus/push, and next infusion they're going to cut both drugs down by 25% to try to...

Thanks, Mike. I hope your situation is continuing to improve. It sounds like you've been seeing more steps forward than back, lately, which is great to hear. I've been concerned for you.

I've now gotten through dose #7, so more than halfway done! My side effects haven't changed much EXCEPT that I finally did start getting fatigue after this round. My disconnect day is Sunday and I felt super tired starting in the afternoons Monday and Tuesday (last week). I took 1.5 to 2-hour naps i...

My CEA was 11.2 and I was diagnosed stage III with no detected lymph node involvement and no mets. As others have said, you don't have enough information yet; see what specifics you learn and go from there. CEA is just one indicator and isn't ever used to make decisions on its own, because it is so ...

Yikes, I am so glad that you advocated for yourself and got better care, despite how things started out. Thanks for sharing your experience, and I hope things go very well from here on out for you. I also had 2 CT scans before my colonoscopy and they both came back as diverticulitis with some bad in...

One thing that will really help is to make sure you have a list of what you want to tell and ask your doctor, and have it with you when you're talking so you can double check and make sure you're not forgetting anything. Make sure you mention your cousin to your doctor. That's really important. The ...

I am so sorry for your loss of your dear Jerry. We had a redbone coonhound for 17 years; normal life expectancy for them is more like 14 years. We did not get a lot of sleep the last year he was alive, he just needed to go out more often, and as a 60-pound dog in a one-bedroom condo he was too big f...

I also can't answer the question about this type of resection, but I did find info about Johns Hopkins short term housing for cancer patients on the web: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/the_johns_hopkins_hospital/planning_visit/hotels_housing/short_term_housing.html Hopkins is definitely a good plac...

Wanted to add one more thing. I think the thing that has been most frustrating to me aside from the whole "I have cancer?" thing is that the mother of one of my direct reports passed away while I was recovering from surgery and still had an open wound, so I really didn't feel like I could ...

Just shy of a week after Infusion #5, now. Symptoms were about like usual; cold sensitivity, lack of appetite, first bite; none of it worse than usual (except maybe the lack of appetite, but not by much). I can drink fridge-cold things now, but handling them is still painful and I still need another...

I had a feeling that pic was taken with a DSLR. The camera I used to lug around with me and some times do is a Panasonic GF-1 with all the various lenses. I then got a compact more point and shoot camera: Panasonic LX-5. The LX-5 also has a Leica lens and takes very good pictures even in the auto m...

Others may be able to explain this better than me, but I will take a shot. :) The main reason they recommended chemo for me is that in addition to my main tumor they found a "noncontiguous tumor deposit" nearby during surgery. This means that the cancer had spread locally and started a 2nd...

It's a Samsung S8. I also have a Samsung S9 for my work phone. I've taken some pictures with the S9. Being it's my work phone, I tend not to take many personal pictures with it for obvious reasons. Based on what I can tell between the phones, there's really no difference in performance. The S9 is s...