Happy New Year everyone!! We had a very quiet and uneventful New Year. We celebrated by attending the Regina Pat's New Years Day game...they even won in overtime.
Caine went for an echo on his heart on Jan 2 as they like to check his heart before this treatment as the one drug can be hard on the heart, doxorubicon.
We did bloodwork on Jan7 and got the all clear to start our final stage of frontline, Delayed Intensification (DI) on January 8. He did well.with the first round and has two more rounds. If all goes to plan we should be complete with all of our frontline around Feb 29 (yeah for leap year). We head back to the clinic tomorrow for another round of IV treatment and his shots (only 9 of those left too...not that we are counting).
The tough part about the past week is that he had a week blast of steriods. This round really effected his mood vs needing to eat everything in sute. The blast is done today and starts again in a week so one more to get through. These weeks are tough on all of us.
We are seeing the light at the end of this crappy tunnel. Please continue to pray and think of Caine as he goes through this.
After this we are onto maintenance which is supposed to be easy and manageable. They also say within a few months he will be back to " we cant wait".