Christian's PPB Cancer Journey

It has been a while since we did an update. He started a new chemo therapy regime. Week one he gets Gemcitabine and week two he gets Docetaxel and Gemciabine. Week three is bloodwork. Hes currently on day ten of cycle two.

Two weeks ago he needed a blood transfusion and two days of the GCSF shots, those we do at home. He will probably need another blood transfusion tomorrow. On top of everything he has pneumonia he had a fever they did x ray at doctors office seen the pneumonia started him on antibiotics. Last week he had a fever we ended up in the emergency room saw that he still has pneumonia gave him two antibiotics on the pump 24 hours later we went back for the second dose.

He had a pretty bad cough but that is starting to get better thank god. He on an antibiotic at home for a ten day course. He is starting to lose his hair but he happy about that. After cycle three we will do scans CT chest and pet. We are scared to death to say the least but trying to keep faith that this medication is working. The light beam trial should be coming out in June or July depending if this medication working or not will let us know if he going to start the new one when it comes out.

Before they started him on the new antibiotic his cough was not good so his oncologist looked at the x ray and verified it is not being caused because of tumor it’s because of the pneumonia.

Most people that would be bad news but for us that was a relief. He also takes a steroid days 7,8 and 9 to prevent one of the side effects fluid in the lung.