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On Nov. 15-17, 2009, my son had his 17th course
of chemotherapy. After at least 20 hospital confinements since
January this year, from as short as 2 nights to as long as 2 weeks at a
time, this last in-patient session is a milestone for us. After ten months that ran the whole gamut of treatment from chemotherapy to
surgery to radiotherapy with major hiccups along the way, it was a
celebratory occasion as his doctors…
Nothing in this road is ever easy. I thought that when chemo shrank my son's kidney tumor and it was removed during surgery, that treatment would be simpler, easier afterwards. I find that I can hardly breathe a sigh of relief because if it isn't one thing it's another.
Technically, my son is in remission and his chemo now is sort of a mopping up of any malignant cells that may have been left behind. We…
Today, my son had his last out-patient chemo. In his remaining treatment schedule, he needed to undergo 2 months of weekly out-patient chemo in July and August but this was interrupted when he suffered complications from side effects of chemo. Next week, he'll have in-patient chemo then it'll be every three weeks thereafter. As the countdown to Christmas has started in my country, so have we started the countdown…
