As I neared the end of the Taxol infusion and realized that it had only taken 1.5 hours, Nurse Laurie told me some interesting news: since my last treatment some research has been published demonstrating no difference in patients who had received Taxol over three hours or one hour. The research was, apparently, spearheaded by my very own Dr. Urba. So I am one of the first patients to receive the treatment in this newly-approved "fast" time. Naturally I was relieved to get out of the clinic earlier, but I was a bit unnerved when Laurie exclaimed "I can't wait to see how this turns out for you!" So now I'm anxiously awaiting a new slew of side effects (see September 9 posting: Paranoia.)
In other news my mouth has cleared up and my red blood cell count is on the increase so I'm back to being only slightly anemic. Taxol is, as they thought it might, taking much less of a toll on my system.
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