Round 3 - With Changes in Place!

On my birthday, April 28th, we went to the cancer center knowing things were going to be different  - YET AGAIN.  The past two chemo sessions had landed me in the hospital and were not kind to my stomach.  Truth
be told, when we walked into the cancer center on the 28th, not much had changed or been resolved with regards to my stomach and the ongoing diarrhea I was experiencing.

We met with Dr. Priya Rastogi, MD and the nurses this day and it had been decided, prior to our arrival, that we would try a new course of treatment.  They were going to give me the usual Herceptin treatment, but forgo the other drugs I had been getting in hopes that a new, different drug would be better tolerated.  The new drug is called Abraxane. Supposedly this drug was less harsh and had fewer side effects on your digestive system.  But because it was less harsh, I would have to go for chemo weekly now instead of every 3 weeks like the previous regimen. 

Chemo itself lasted only an hour, but we were there most of the day.  We left hopeful that this would be our solution.  The goal was to re-evaluate things in four weeks and then decide "Where do we go from here?" at that point.