Showing posts with label maintenance phase. Show all posts
Showing posts with label maintenance phase. Show all posts
Day in the Life - Medication
I often get asked if Hugo is still on chemotherapy. Has he finished, or is he due another cycle? Treatment for blood cancers can differ from other cancer treatment plans. It is often long, in some cases life long, and I think this can be difficult to comprehend - I know it was for us when we were told his treatment would last for over 3 years. Hopefully this explains a little more about the medication, chemo and otherwise, that Hugo takes for his type of leukaemia (acute lymphoblastic leukaemia).
Day in the Life - Hospitals
Labels:
bone density scan,
GOSH,
maintenance phase,
nerve conduction,
physio,
Vincristine,
x-ray
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Hugo started the maintenance phase of his treatment plan in January 2016. It's the final phase of treatment and is made up of 12 cycles, each of which are 12 weeks long. However, each 4 week block is the same so we tend to count in months rather than cycles.
Watching and Waiting
When Hugo started the maintenance phase of treatment 14 months ago, we were warned that there would be hospital admissions. That Hugo's low immunity would make him susceptible to infections and that his inability to fight these infections would likely mean IV antibiotics administered in hospital. It wasn't a case of if, but of when.
Halfway
We have now passed the halfway point of treatment. Hugo is currently on month 20, with 18 more to go. We are on the downhill slope towards the end of treatment. That light at the end of the tunnel is getting ever so slightly brighter.
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