It has been quite some time since I have been on here. I am happy to report that I am so glad for all the nausea, lack of appetite, weakness, sickness, hospitalizations, and all other things chemo are now behind me. The 3rd round of chemo was really tough to get through. I felt like… Read More »
I am over the hump of my scheduled chemo treatments. This round went much better than the first, but there first week of the cycle during the 5 days in a row of chemo is still really rough to get through with the nausea and fatigue. I ended up missing out on day 5 of… Read More »
April 26, 2017 The back pain I was having was unbearable. My lower back felt like it was on fire. My wife brought my into the ER which was so full that they started to turn away patients shortly after I arrived. The minutes of pain that ticked by seemed like forever. I was experiencing… Read More »
April 25, 2017 Dr O made the referral to the first available surgical urologist. I was eager to get to see someone and find out what needed to happen to get this out of my body. Dr R was the urologist and he was a little different than the other doctors I had been to… Read More »
April 21, 2017 My first visit to the oncologist… It felt like a lot of waiting to get here, but it felt good to finally start working on a plan for treatment and not just discovering what was going on in my body. The Oncologist, Dr S specializes in Chemo therapy and is confident that… Read More »
April 13, 2017 I received a call from Dr. O indicating that they needed me to get a testicular ultra sound right away due to something that had come back on the biopsy. LeeAnna and I had been focused on Lymphoma until I received this call. Now we started to research testicular cancer signs, symptoms,… Read More »
Timeline of my first day of Chemo 9 Got a cocktail of benedryl, zofran, compazine, Tylenol, IV fluids. Feeling tired from the benedryl. 10:15 test dose of bleyomicin given. 10:45 my first official bag of chemo. 11:35 I have a bag of fluids in my already. I have started in lacics that is supposed to… Read More »
May 18, 2017 Today is the day I get to have my port installed. I am feeling a little bit nervous about it. LeeAnna helped me create a short video right before I went to the hospital. I had no clue what to expect from the surgery to get it implanted. The anesthesia was going… Read More »
April 17, 2017 The day that I get the official biopsy result from the Dr. It seemed like more of a formality since the biopsy result was already discovered in my ultrasound result. Dr O informed us that the biopsy result showed that I have pure seminoma. He was encouraging and told us that what… Read More »
April 7, 2017 I was feeling pretty nervous about the biopsy. The idea of a long needle going into me and then into this mass and pulling something out of it did not sit well. I had a fear that I would feel something with the needle going in and make some movement that was… Read More »