Chemo Stopped Working
So I am no longer doing it
Recently I went through more chemo. My markers were going up and so I agreed to do chemo again. My markers went down during the first round of three treatments.
However, during the second round, the markers were going up again. After the first treatment of this second round, I agreed to another treatment to see if this was an anamoly.
It wasn’t.
After the second treatment, the markers kept going up. So I decided not to do the third treatment. Instead, I agreed to meet with my oncologist the following week.
That appointment will be next week.
I am not sure what options I have and whether they would be acceptable.
Chemotherapy has aleaady been miserable. I’m not sure I want to keep going with even more painful treatments.
I’ve got a friend who has been battling cancer for a while. It keeps coming back and the doctors keep trying newer drugs. When he is on the drugs he can’t eat, throws up all the time, is frail and miserable. He is doing it to live, which I understand.
However, I have periodically taken breaks from treatment. My oncologist didn’t like it, but doing it my way, I was able to do things — I traveled on Amtrak (something I’d always wanted to do)…
