Today we got the details of Meri's chemotherapy treatment plan. She will begin on Monday. She will have the V-A-C chemo treatment which is a combination of 3 different chemo drugs. She will have chemo every Monday (mostly - there are little changes here and there). Every 3rd week, chemo will be LONG - 8 hours! - because the chemo drug needs to be introduced and followed with saline solution. The other weeks, it will be 1 hour of chemo. So this week is an 8 hour session, then the next week is 1 hour, 1 hour, then 8 hours, etc.
The doctor said she will start feeling nauseous about 4 hours or so after treatment and may feel sick for a day or 2. They are giving her 2 anti-nausea medications so hopefully that will help. The doctor said some kids don't feel sick, so we'll have to wait and see, and keep fingers crossed.
Every 15 weeks Meri will have scans to see how things are going, and make sure everything is progressing as planned.
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