Over the weekend my hair was falling out all over the house, alarming me and the other members of the household. Also my scalp hurt as if the hairs moving around, or even their weight, irritated their dying follicles. So Tuesday morning I got Andy to help me shave my head. It feels very strange, …
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Andy here. Doctors generally seem to avoid telling you statistical chances of this and that, even though all of their treatments are based on analysis of such statistics. Here are some things doctors told us. The 4 months of R-CHOP chemotherapy have about a 70% chance of being successful in that, at the end of …
Yesterday I had an appointment with the chemotherapy physicians assistant because it is the middle of the first chemo cycle. I also met with her before the first infusion. Her name is Avery. Everyone working in the oncology office says her name with a swoon as if they are in love. I like her too, …
In anticipation of my hair starting to fall out in a couple of weeks I got a hair cut yesterday. Here is a before-during-and after montage.