The good news and the bad news

The good news is that the biphasic CT scan was absolutely clean. Further good news is that Mary started her radiation therapy on Monday as planned. In fact, Mary even started the companion chemotherapy last night and continued this morning.

The bad news is that the radiation made her seriously nauseous on the way home from the hospital--we didn't even have time to get to the drugstore to pick up the medications. And was certainly a lot sooner than the doctor's advice, "You may start feeling nauseous and tired in 10 days to two weeks." Hah! More like 10 minutes to two hours! It was a good thing we were driving Mary's convertible (top up in yesterday's high temperature) because we have baseball caps at hand for wind or sun and now for nauseous passengers who need a spittoon.

The doctor had written two scripts for nausea meds while we were there. With the immediate nausea and our call back to the hospital, they wrote two more scripts and Mary is to optimize the nausea meds to her best benefit. Stanford sends the prescriptions electronically to our Los Gatos Walgreen's store. We don't have to run around with paper prescriptions (aka script) nor have the doctor "call it in."

After she started the medications, she has been able to eat a bit. She admits that nothing appeals to her except fresh fruit and cottage cheese. I fed her two plates of cheese and fruit several hours apart once the meds kicked in last night. She was able to keep it down along with the chemo drugs and had a successful night's sleep too.