Can't think of a good title this time. Just a brief update from the wife again.
So we figured out the treatments are supposed to run like this: camptosar and erbitux for two weeks, then erbitux alone the third week, and then back to both campto and erbitux. Xeloda always starts for two weeks (as pills) when camptosar starts.
And as soon as we had figured this out, Jan Arne's platelets dived again last week, and he only got erbitux and had to cut xeloda short too, only took it for a week.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) there's another blood test and on Thursday, we are again clueless if it will be campto as well if the platelets are back up, or only erbitux. And who knows about xeloda.
On the positive side, the nausea and stomach cramps caused by camptosar are now under control with medication so hooray for that, in case he gets campto this week.
Then again, the summer is finally here, http://www.fmi.fi/saa/paikalli.html?kunta=Tampere, as I read it now it says "25, 26, 28, 28, 28" for the next five days. So we'll just try to keep cool until Thursday in many ways.
Otherwise Jan Arne is doing fine, he went for a long bike ride today etc. His hair has started to come off finally, but then again that does not really influence his ability to cycle... By the way, I guess we have forgotten to share that we got some results that Jan Arne's cancer is not hereditary (HNPCC). Which reminds me we had Jan Arne's sister here for over a week and we had a great time, despite the lousy weather!
If someone is interested in reading some cancer news here's a pretty interesting bit:
http://www.cancercompass.com/cancer-news/1,15813,00.htm
Jan Arne, next time it is your turn to write!
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