The Ceremony of Innocence is Drowned
Jenny started the folfiri regimen today, the gemabraxane cisplatin regimen cut short by low neutrophil counts. I accompanied her. Nervous all morning because of pain she has been having in her very lower back down to the bottom of her buttocks, our nerves made worse because today was a scan day. We both were worried that the cancer had spread. Good news, the pain Jenny has been suffering with was caused by constipation according to Picozzi, not the cancer. More good news, the cancer hasn't spread. However, her tumor has grown, as has the met on her liver, although neither by much. [And, they found a new met]. I was writing this in bed at the hovel of an apartment, but now am sitting at Virginia Mason, after Jenny was transported here at 2:15 in the morning for excruciating pain in her lower back and abdomen, so bad she couldn't walk. She is a woman, mind you, a woman who passed a kidney stone at the ski lodge and went back on the slopes and who has given bi...