After two miserable months of non-stop vomitting, nausea and increasingly intense pain, scans show that the Carboplatin/Taxol combination has not worked for my husband. We were told yesterday that he has several more sites and significant growth in all existing sites. For the first time, he does have cancer on an organ (his liver). There is a tumor eating through the bone in his wrist, which has already been operated on once but continued to grow, but he cant be operated on or he could not start the newest, and final treatment being offered by his doctor (Abraxane/Avastin)
After two miserable months of non-stop vomitting, nausea and increasingly intense pain, scans show that the Carboplatin/Taxol combination has not worked for my husband. We were told yesterday that he has several more sites and significant growth in all existing sites. For the first time, he does have cancer on an organ (his liver). There is a tumor eating through the bone in his wrist, which has already been operated on once but continued to grow, but he cant be operated on or he could not start the newest, and final treatment being offered by his doctor (Abraxane/Avastin). We were told that we could expect that in the next 3 to 6 months either the cancer would spread to internal organs and cause failure, or the tumor burden would become so great that the toxins in his blood will likely cause organ failure. This new treatment could slow things down, but could also cause heart attack or stroke.
I can't stand to see him so miserable. He is nauseous and in pain all the time. He just got a fentanyl patch and started on Morphine, so today has been thankfully better than the past week.
I know there is no question in my ramblings, just needed to share it and not have to deal with all of the human emotions it evokes when I tell family and friends.
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