14 Jul 2008, Monday - Saw Dr Wong before my herceptin iv. She referred to the brain, chest and abdomen ct of 7 July and commented that there was a lot of improvement and that the metastases have shrunk.
Shrunk? I was expecting to hear her said that they have disappeared, and asked, " you mean they are still there?" She said, "of course, not so fast". So, after 5 doses of chemo that left me weak and suffering from side-effects, the cancer cells have not been eradicated. I was disappointed.
As my right arm had water retention, Dr Wong arranged for me to see a physio-therapist.
I went to the chemo unit to have my chest tapped. 1 ltr of fluid was tapped from my right lung. After each chest tap, I'd had to have a chest x-ray taken. The right lung was quite clear now, but the left lung still had pleural effusion. It came back again after the June tapping.
After the chest tap, I had 300mg of herceptin by iv.
The blood test in the morning, before I saw Dr Wong, showed my cancer marker had dropped to 16.
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