Appointments and Transfusions

Sean had an appointment with his oncologist Monday. She was positive about how Sean has been doing with his treatments and told him she wanted him to get his blood drawn at cottage (the smaller hospital closer to our home) Once at cottage they went ahead and drew a few vials of blood and told Sean they would call him Tuesday morning if his count/hemoglobin looked good enough to not need a transfusion. Tuesday morning we arrived at cottage at eight a.m. His hemoglobin was up so they called his oncologist to see if she still wanted Sean to recieve the blood transfusion,she did. They began the transfusion around quarter to 9 and it was the longest trasfusion ever. They did not use the pump(claiming it damages red blood cells which we have NEVER been told before)which made the transfusion take ridiculously longer, over three hours for Sean to recieve one unit of blood and he was scheduled for two. They started the second bag around noon and he did not finish until close to 3:30 p.m. Sean was upset with the length of time that the transfusion took. Afterwards we took the elevator down to the first floor and Sean was able to have his radiation treatment while we were there which he was happy to be back on schedule. His last radiation treatment should be next Thursday which is great. He had his radiation treatment today and we have Chemotherapy scheduled for tommorow. After tommorow Sean has three more actual days of Chemo to our knowledge. I will update as I know more.:)He weigh is around 170 at the moment and he is still eating fairly well.

Sean and radiation

Sean has had two radiation treatments and so far he has not complained about too many problems or side effects. His biggest problem has been sweating which we are not sure why and I told him that we should contact his doctor for a reason. He is scheduled to have a port placed inside his chest again as of Friday this week I will update as I know more.

So we spoke to the Surgeon

We spoke with the surgeon the other day and he said all of Seans scars were healing great. He also removed him from the oxygen and told him that after a month since the surgery passes he can go back to work given if he can deal with the chemo and radiation side effects. Sean starts Radiation treatment tommorow and Chemotherapy the 21st of this month. I have included updated pictures and will include a detailed treatment schedule when I have one.

Seans Radiologist Appointment

We went to see the radiologist yesterday and they went over some of the more basic things we already were aware of at first. They checked Seans oxygen which was at an awesome 100% and they showed us to a room to wait for the doctor. We spoke with two new doctors and they sat down and explained the new path they intend to take concerning Seans treatment. They have decided that for the next seven weeks they will be doing radiation on his lung five days a week which takes about fifteen minutes a day. On top of that they want to give him a cycle of Chemotherapy once a week. When we got home from the appointment Sean seemed to be in a decent mood enough that he was taking off his oxygen for half hours at a time, going outside and just relaxing and having a decent appetite at dinner. He looks really good today and hopefully after we speak to the ongologist at three today he will be feeling better as far as what is the next step goes.