Chemo underway!

Robert had his first chemo treatment yesterday! First chemo drug they administered was Vectibix. This drug is not approved by the FDA. There was some confusion on the insurance as to whether they approved the drug. Dr. Nadler was told it was approved, after inquiring twice, he even told us that he was very surprised it was approved without him having to prove the necessity. Anyway, they started the drug, and then found out that indeed the insurance company denied this drug. They will of course appeal and Dr. Nadler feels he can get it approved. We hope so because the cost of this drug is $11,000 and we had to sign a form stating if the insurance does not pay, that we will have to cover the cost. I laughed and said yeah just show me where to sign. Next they administered Cisplatin and Taxotere. The treatment lasted 6 hours. My BFF Lisa came up and sat with us, after what happened to Robert last week I did not feel comfortable with leaving him alone. Because of Lisa the hours flew by.

Robert will get the Vectibix once every two weeks and the Cisplatin and Taxotere once very three weeks. The side effect will be pretty bad, because of the high doses he will recieve. He has already experienced stomach aches and weakness.

Lisa made it home just in time before the storms hit and we were running out of Baylor at 6 with reports of tornado's everywhere. It seemed we were dodging them until we got to the East side of Rockwall. But we were determined to get back home.

We are going to see how Robert does the next couple of days and if all goes well we may head down to Port Aransas and spend a few days on the beach at Mother and Benny's beach pad. I think a nice sea breeze will be just what the Dr. ordered.