Gina Angela Mason

Gina Angela Mason
My Soulmate

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Round Four of Chemo

Dr Sipahi Visit @ Riverside Medical Center
  • Trip to Dr Sipahi's office for fourth round of chemotherapy
  • Follow up w/ Dr Sipahi went well - looked at recent bone scan which showed an improvement from original scans in femur.
  • No other new bone cancer in the body was detected! (yipee!)
  • Since Gina's kidney function is doing much better, Dr Sipahi increased level of Chemo and added new medicine (red blood stimulator) called Procrit
  • Had to take Zometa again - "super glue" for bones
  • At Dr Sipahi's office from 0930 until around 4:30 or 5:00 pm for treatment
  • Dr Sipahi had his lovely staff members schedule CT scans for chest (lung), abdomen (liver) and pelvis (kidney) for Thursday March 27, 2008 - to coincide with MRI of brain that Dr Schwartz ordered (also same day)
  • We wanted to take a moment to let all out there know that all of the "girls" at Dr Sipahi's office are God's little angels and have always treated Gina (and myself) wonderful and really go that extra step to make us feel so good.
  • We will be off to Chicago again to see doctors Olopade and Knight on April 7th they will take a look at the new scans to see how much the chemo is destroying those cancer cells.

7 comments:

Deanna and Eddie said...

Keep fighting it sweetheart!!! you are doing an awesome job at beating this!!! take care!!
Deanna Eddie and family

gina said...

Miss you Deanna, Eddie, and KIDS!! Having some scans done on the 27th of March and round 5 of chemo on April 1st (no fooling) and then I go back up to Chicago on April 7th. Crossing fingers that all this medicine is going to show awesome improvement on the tumors!

Is is October yet - ready to start wrestling again :)

Gina

Deanna and Eddie said...

Gina~ We miss you guys too! there is always the spring team... the Killer Beez for wrestling. it starts march 31. have bob call eddie if you guys are interested.

Lori said...

Gina,
Hang in there girl! We are praying for you everyday. Keep the faith and stay strong. We love you!
Lori S.

Deanna and Eddie said...

Gina, Bob and family
Wanted to wish you all a Happy Easter!! Can;t wait to see you next Sunday at the party!!
Love
Eddie Deanna and kids

Deanna and Eddie said...

I hope everything went good today with the CT scans. keep fighting you are a true champ!!! love deanna

Maureen said...

I just wanted to let you know that we are thinking of you and we hope the scans went well.
I have no doubt that everything is going awesome and we will be all sitting by my pool soon drinking margaritas and celebrating!!!!!!
love ya lots!
Bill,Maureen,Brittany and your favorite of course Brett