The cardiac nurse called today to tell me my Echo was normal. This is a good thing. :) SO, Dr. F the Medical Oncologist says that we'll probably do them every three months or so, to make sure the Herceptin is not damaging my heart function. Happily, they don't hurt or anything.
On the way home from chemo, we had weird stuff hitting our windshield. It was snow. SNOW! See, I knew it was going to snow. It lasted a good THIRTY seconds.... hehehe. But it's gotten very dark again, and I imagine it's going to do it again sometime during the night. It's sneaky that way.
Ok, this was just a quickie blog post to share the echocardiogram results. All is well on the heart front. :D
Showing posts with label Echocardiogram. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Echocardiogram. Show all posts
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Echocardiogram Today
It was supposed to be yesterday, but they had to move it. "Can we do it on Thursday?" "No, that's chemo day." Which is why we didn't do it LAST Thursday. Oh well, at least it should be quick and painless.
XM radio is playing "The Black Hole" on Cinemagic. It's a great score by John Barry. Very evocative. When I first saw it, that danged robot killing the Psycho dude freaked me out. Maximilian Schell was pretty frightening, too. And Quentin McHale being a bad guy? It just didn't compute. Yes, I did watch too much TV as a child. But looking back, it wasn't nearly as much as I thought. Only one person in our house had control of our one TV, and that was our dad. As long as you wanted to watch things like "The Beverly Hillbillies," "McHale's Navy," or gods forbid, "Three's Company," you were happy. I enjoyed books. :)
As children, we all read like crazy. Our house had books everywhere, and there were no rules with regard to their content. If the book was in the house, and you could read it, you could read it. :) I used to read this really old set of encyclopedias from cover to cover. As it turned out, this provided me with incredible "Trivial Pursuit" skills.
Whenever we took family car trips that required an overnight stay, our big treat was that we got to pick out a book that Auntie would buy for us. Oh my gosh, to get a book that was pristine, that was one YOU wanted;... heaven, just heaven. We all had our own tastes, to be sure. My brother Jes would always opt for a "Mad Magazine." :D
Hmm, I guess that's enough for this trip down memory lane. For some reason, World of Warcraft is doing a Wednesday maintenance, so I think I'll go try to get some time on my NuStep. I have lost my discipline where that device is concerned. Dang it.
Take care, all.
XM radio is playing "The Black Hole" on Cinemagic. It's a great score by John Barry. Very evocative. When I first saw it, that danged robot killing the Psycho dude freaked me out. Maximilian Schell was pretty frightening, too. And Quentin McHale being a bad guy? It just didn't compute. Yes, I did watch too much TV as a child. But looking back, it wasn't nearly as much as I thought. Only one person in our house had control of our one TV, and that was our dad. As long as you wanted to watch things like "The Beverly Hillbillies," "McHale's Navy," or gods forbid, "Three's Company," you were happy. I enjoyed books. :)
As children, we all read like crazy. Our house had books everywhere, and there were no rules with regard to their content. If the book was in the house, and you could read it, you could read it. :) I used to read this really old set of encyclopedias from cover to cover. As it turned out, this provided me with incredible "Trivial Pursuit" skills.
Whenever we took family car trips that required an overnight stay, our big treat was that we got to pick out a book that Auntie would buy for us. Oh my gosh, to get a book that was pristine, that was one YOU wanted;... heaven, just heaven. We all had our own tastes, to be sure. My brother Jes would always opt for a "Mad Magazine." :D
Hmm, I guess that's enough for this trip down memory lane. For some reason, World of Warcraft is doing a Wednesday maintenance, so I think I'll go try to get some time on my NuStep. I have lost my discipline where that device is concerned. Dang it.
Take care, all.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Saw my Medical Oncologist
He's taking me off Taxol and Carboplatin, at least for now, but I must continue on the Herceptin. I also have to go make an appointment with Dr. Wilcoxson, my cardiologist, to get an echocardiogram on my heart.
Dr. F says he is trying to weigh the use of the chemo against my quality of life. He's never said how much time he thinks I might have, and I don't know that I want to know, nor would I give much credence to a number, but if he's talking quality of life already, ... ugh.
But anyway, I feel like I could live several more years, so that's that. :)
I'll see Dr. F again on the 30th of December.
Ok, the exciting beginning drugs are coming so I'm going to end this post.
Take care, all!
Dr. F says he is trying to weigh the use of the chemo against my quality of life. He's never said how much time he thinks I might have, and I don't know that I want to know, nor would I give much credence to a number, but if he's talking quality of life already, ... ugh.
But anyway, I feel like I could live several more years, so that's that. :)
I'll see Dr. F again on the 30th of December.
Ok, the exciting beginning drugs are coming so I'm going to end this post.
Take care, all!
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