New treatment plan: try increasing chemo frequency

Jazz was bright today, and eating and drinking normally. We went out for a short walk around the block too.

Fiona called this evening, and we discussed his ongoing treatment. Neither of us feel it's appropriate to change to a different drugs regime at this point (apart from anything else, other available drugs have more side-effects, and he's already had some severe reactions to other chemo drugs). However, we feel that the chemo is not lasting him for the full week now, so we're going to try the Vincristine every 5 days instead of every 7. This is not normal treatment (but then, if he was on normal treatment, we'd have been able to cut the Vincristine down by now, and when we tried dropping to every two weeks he got ill).

There is a risk that by treating more often, we'll start to attack good cells (such as the gut and bowel) as well as the cancerous ones, but since he's apparently feeling wiped out for two days a week now, when the Vincristine's "run out", we'll give it a try and see what happens.

Not for the first time, this really is starting to feel like the beginning of the end.