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Health Update #27: Season 2, Episode 2 -- Docetaxel and Ramucirumab

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#WinterDriving #35ontheInterstate #LakeEffectSnow The night before my most recent infusion, we met with Cornelia and Jack at Sava's in Ann Arbor for dinner. There was some kind of sportsball game on the television that everyone seemed interested in, a post-Rose Bowl championship game happening. We left before the college-town fanatics streamed onto the streets of Ann Arbor and started setting everything on fire. Good thing they won. The session at the Rogel Cancer Center went without a hitch, though they were backed up in the infusion room and we had to wait a while for an open chair. We arrived at 11:30 am for lab work, then met with Dr. Q at 12:30 to go over the lab results -- all good reports in terms of kidney function, liver function, heart, and lungs. Dr. Q was upbeat about the response to Docetaxel and the mildness of the side effects which were much gentler than this past summer. We parked ourselves in the waiting room for the infusion bays by 1:00 or so for a 2:00 appointm...