Well, that was a LONG day after picking Jen up from her apartment just after noon today (we left home at 10:20). Oncology was a cluster.. today at Mt Sinai, with unscheduled patients and emergency consults bumping us by almost 5 hours. But hey, we've done the same to others and just have to take it in stride... unlike the impatient Doctor that couldn't comprehend having to wait "an hour" to see his Oncologist. I almost took him out... to save him the wait. Never seen someone make such a scene in the 5 years we've been going there.
Jen had her head and full body CT's on Monday (30th)... saw the Doc today.. well yesterday by now. Lung spots have grown a millimeter or two in the past 6/7 weeks, but the radiation seems to have done it's job at this point for her skull / brain. Nothing new showing and what was being fully radiated seems to have subsided a bit, so it at least worked on what was there before the latest radiation. I know it's done something, as Jen is back to her bubbly self again. Very few headaches, although still easily tired which of course is a side effect of radiation.
Got her script for the new Pazopanib, with just 2 minutes to spare before the pharmacy closed. Much to our surprise it was ONLY $4891.07 CDN for a months worth of pills. Cheapest I could find, as noted in the last update was over $8800 US$'s for the American folks here.
So she came home with us, to see how she reacts to this drug. Just wasn't a good idea to leave her "home alone". She has an appointment again in 4 weeks to consult what her side effects have been and if a few key things do go to hell before that we screw up their scheduling like others did to us today. Just how it works, but hopefully she can stick to 4 weeks and this stuff keeps anything new at bay. The goal is to keep her stable for a time period so we can get her into an immune therapy trial.