ho hum another snowy day in Paradise

Just home from the last R-CHOP infusion of this cycle of six. Now Velcade on Thursday and I'm free at last (see MLK--it's his day). A little spacey from the chemicals; and the usual anti-allergenics (Benadryl) at the beginning put me out. I think I slept most of the six hours I was there. My eyes have been driving me crazy with itch. Today a woman in the infusion room was cursing the chemo gods because in women apparently while they lose all the hair on their heads, they do not lose leg hair. So she had to keep shaving her legs. She declared the unfairness of this. We all wondered evolution-wise why this would be. Somewhere in this discussion eyelashes were mentioned. I haven't even thought to see whether mine are gone. Certainly could contribute to my current eye difficulties. Actually, we have had a winter so far in which there has been enough wind that we have mostly been off the EPA's shit list, so perhaps I shouldn't be bad mouthing the small particulates (PM2.5 and PM10) as producing this problem.

Learned a bunch from AbJ today. We will wait approximately two weeks after my last infusion and schedule CT scans again. This surprised me, but makes sense as a double check on the clean bill after the third cycle. I am optimistic about outcomes there. Then we schedule maintenance/boosters at six months from the last infusion (circa July 19). At that time, I get about a 3.5-hr infusion of the R of the R-CHOP, that is Retuxin, once per week for 4 weeks. The staff say no big deal. The R alone is not enough to produce nausea, constipation, etc. And the hair will come back. They say I will be able to fish the next day. We'll see.