Yesterday marked the start of round 9 of chemo. Between then and our last post, my doctor lowered my dose from 400mg/day to 300mg/day. My platelets were getting a little low at 400mg, and my doctor decided that things were working well enough that a lowered dose would be more tolerable to my bone marrow, and I would feel a bit better while on it. Also, I had an MRI Monday and saw my oncologist yesterday to get results while picking up my chemo meds. All is going really well. The MRI shows further decreases in tumor, and I keep on getting better. The biggest piece of news is that I am definitely headed for 24 total rounds of chemo unless the Temodar starts to mess with my bone marrow or becomes otherwise intolerable. It was unclear to us until yesterday whether we'd stop at 12 rounds, which is the minimum, or go on to 24. The plan is to go to 24 now that things are working well for me on the lower dose. If the tumor is magically gone one day on the MRI, then we'll stop early, but I don't expect that to happen.
