Today is another round of chemo (and to be honest, I've lost count) for Christopher and we had our list of questions for the doctor.
Q1. What's up with the spots? (recently Christopher started to get black spots on the bottoms of his feet - almost like he had mold growing on his feet - yes I know, bad way to describe it, but you get the idea)
A1. A-normal side effect of chemo, but still a side effect. Nothing to worry about. Chalk it up to the other weird side effects he gets that no one else does.
Q2. When is my next CEA marker test?
A1. Next Treatment. (everyone pray for a drop in the numbers!)
Q3. Cryo-Treatemts? Only for kidney cancer?
A3. As of right now the Cryo-treaments are for people with kidney cancer who can't be operated on for some reason or another. It's only been done on a handful of people and still being looked into on the long term effects. Maybe in 5-10 years it will be used as a treatment for other types of cancer, but as for now it's experimental and only for kidney cancer.
So far everything is looking good with his red and white blood cell counts and we are all on pins and needles to see how his CEA markers and CT scan come out next month! We'll keep you posted.
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