The next six months

• Appointment with Dr. T at Siteman South County

I don't think I really knew how to feel before today's appointment with Dr. T. But now that's is over, I'm feeling good. The plan going forward is to go after any cancer bits hiding out and laying low, starting with a minimum of six more months of chemo. We'll start in three weeks on February 17th, with 4 more rounds of FOLFOX. I've had 8 rounds already and studies show that most people can only tolerate 12 rounds. Then I'll have some scans and just depending on how things are going, we'll do some variety of 5-FU and/or Avastin and/or Oxaliplatin and/or Xeloda for 4 more months. And then the dream of all dreams is for there to be no evidence of disease (NED) in six months when I'm scanned, around August 4th. That's the date that I'm going to dangle out in front of myself.

We're also adding a couple of things to my stack of meds. First is a Vitamin D supplement, 50,000 mgs. taken just once a week for the next 12 weeks. I'm wondering if that is going to be the largest pill I've ever seen or maybe it will be a pile of 500 pills? We shall see. Secondly, to help with the neuropathy, I'm going to start a Vitamin B supplement and a daily medication called Neurontin.