A Long Day

Chemo. I guess it takes some hours to suffuse the blood stream with these 'stoffs', auf Deutsch gesagt.

It was late afternoon there when she got home. We didn't talk, we typed, on the IM. If that's all she's got, she's giving it to me; what kinda bum isn't grateful if only for that little bit?

I never learned at what time her treatment began today, but she had an appointment with the oncologist prior, during which she asked him if he'd seen the study on Avastin, details of which I'd sent her... His answer didn't actually reveal if he'd heard of the study, because he asked her what cancers were the subject of the study (it was breast). He seemed to discount the information somewhat, based on the kind of cancer/tumor was the subject of the therapy. He told her in his experience, it was useful in short-run life maintenance, in cases like hers. Without treatment, her prognosis is/was 6 months to a year, more or less (and unofficially; i interpellated information from different places; Lila more or less confirmed it). Now, with treatments, we have to wait and see, evaluate the consequences of this round of therapies. They won't even probably begin conducting scans for at least a couple more weeks. But the oncologist said he planned to continue her using Avastin, as long as there were no adverse effects. Lesson (if one's wanted): We're working in the short run here, to some unfortunate extent.
Me? I take it as given that we're gonna get to the middle distance.

They used the new-fangled, sub-cutaneous port device for the first time today and it worked well, Lila says. She'd had a long day. Auf Deutsch, you type "Kuss"! for one, "Kusse" with an umlaut, for several/many.