Postby cbsmith » Sat Feb 09, 2019 8:58 am
Even if you do have to keep the pump,for 2 or up to 5 years, that doesn’t mean down the road 6 months, a year, 18 months, etc that there won’t be other hospitals servicing the pumps that are closer to your location. In the meantime itmsucks but it sounds like you don’t have much of a choice. Nothing about chemo is easy and getting the pump flushed is one of those things. Hopefully once he is done with the HAI treatment the flushing is on an off week from systemic chemo and it is just one person traveling for the day to get it flushed.
06/14-DX with FAP as 36yo Male
07/14-total colectomy, rectum removal, permanent ileostomy
08/14-DX Stage IIIC, KRAS mutant, MSS
09/14-04/15 - 12 rounds of FOLFOX
07/15-CT showed para-aortic lymph node, onc thght inflammation
10/15-DX Stage IV, CT lymph node tripled in size, 1 small lung met
11/15-FOLFIRI + Avastin
06/16-lymph node is stable, now have a 2nd lung met
01/16-lymph node is stable, lung mets grown 2mm. Still on FOLFIRI + Avastin
11/17 - no chemo since. Lung growth minimal, lymph node is stable