{"id":4865,"date":"2005-10-26T00:59:18","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T00:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:15:55","slug":"therapy_plan_go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4865","title":{"rendered":"Therapy plan going forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">The plan is coming together. I had my CT scan Monday and PET scan Tuesday. Next Thursday, November 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, I will see the lymphoma guru Dr. Zelenetz at Memorial Sloan Kettering in NYC and he\u2019ll review the scans, bloodwork, etc and (hopefully) tell me everything is going to plan. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">The next day I will have the Rituxin protocol at the MSK office next to Phelps. On Saturday the 5<sup>th <\/sup>I\u2019ll be admitted to MSK in Manhattan for the first of three ICE chemotherapy protocols. I will be in for two and a half days, going home Monday afternoon.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>ICE has to be administered over three days, and cannot be done on an outpatient basis. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">The ICE therapy will be repeated twice more, at two week intervals. For those I hope to go in on Friday and be discharged Sunday afternoon, which is a bit more convenient for me. That would also mean having the Rituxin protocol on the two Thursdays at Phelps. I didn\u2019t know the Rituxin would be continued with the ICE protocol and it\u2019s a bit inconvenient since it means I blow a morning getting the infusion. But Rituxin increases the efficacy of the chemotherapy, so it\u2019s important.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">It is now six days since my fourth RCHOP chemotherapy, and I am feeling a little mild fatigue. As with the first three sessions, the fatigue seems to set in from about the 6<sup>th<\/sup> to 10<sup>th<\/sup> days after the chemo infusion. I went to the gym this evening and cut back a tiny bit. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">Over the next three days I have to do some traveling on business in the Tri-State area \u2013 New Jersey and Long Island \u2013 which, should not present a problem, even with the mild chemotherapy fatigue. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">We rminded the boys that I&#8217;d be going into the hospital for some short stays, and it didn&#8217;t seem to bother them. They seem to have adjusted well to my therapy. Of course a lot of that is Brigid doing a good job with them! <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plan is coming together. I had my CT scan Monday and PET scan Tuesday. Next Thursday, November 3rd, I will see the lymphoma guru Dr. Zelenetz at Memorial Sloan Kettering in NYC and he\u2019ll review the scans, bloodwork, etc and (hopefully) tell me everything is going to plan. The next day I will have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9899,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions\/9899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}