In and out and in and out of hospital...

The wife of a lazy husband here again. Well, he hasn't had the easiest of weeks so maybe he's entitled to just lie down on the couch and watch football...

ERCP went well! Hehe, that's the wife perspective I bet. The patient himself said the procedure was awful and it sounded like that was an understatement. If you want to imagine the gory (??) details read more about ERCP here. It also sounded like the doctor managed to scratch his pancreas slightly during the procedure, this did not luckily end up into pancreatitis (which can be hellish or even lethal I understand) but did cause a lot of pain and nausea. So Monday was not a good day for Jan Arne.

But lo and behold, the following day they let out this man, weak but anyway, although 10 hours earlier I had asked the nurse if he would live throughout the night. Well, I must admit that was a bit sarcastic question to a nurse that was not being very friendly to me.

On Wednesday we visited an oncologist, just a regular visit that we have not made in several weeks. The oncologist (a new one, they still have ones we haven't met during these two years!) said Jan Arne's blood values were ok for chemo treatments and they got him an appointment for today (Friday). So in he went today for his first ever dose of Vectibix.

I say chemo but Vectibix is actually an anti-body medicine. We agree with the doctors it makes sense to go with a moderate approach after the difficult six weeks Jan Arne has had, but it does not mean that if all goes well for a few weeks we would not go pestering them about trying with one or another chemo one more time.

Other than that, Jan Arne has been tired after the ERCP but we even ventured a short trip to the local amusement park with the kids yesterday. So all in all, after Monday, a pretty ok week. Jan Arne can give his own perspective when he has energy.