Jill and I are back in southern Maine where they don't seem to require you to sign releases that they might fuse your bladder to your lower intestine as they did back home in central Maine.
Never the less it was not all peaches and cream, as they explained to Jill about Chemo and the cisplatin IV that is so abrasive on her kidneys that they have to uses a saline IV both before and after the treatment to flush her kidneys from the chemo drug.
This is what is considered low dose chemo and from what I read about cisplatin when its mixed with multiple other drugs it becomes much more dangerous where it seems that the treatment is worse than the disease at times.
Today we leave at 7:45 for the chemotherapy appointment that will begin at 8:30 and last about 5 hours followed directly afterwards at 2 in the afternoon with Radiation. The Radiation treatment will be daily and won't end until after the second week of April where afterwards they have planed a few weeks of even more intensive radiation treatments. But we wont get the dates for that until we are a few weeks into the treatment schedule when Jill will meet with Dr. Tarraza to check on how well her body is standing up to the continues bombardment with radiation and chemo.
I know that the radiation will in the end be good for Jill it will kill the cancer and stop the daily bleeding that she suffers. It makes me think back to when I was a child and I was first undergoing radiation treatment myself and how that was the same energy that that vaporized people in Nagasaki leaving only images behind.
At least today we take the first steps at driving this cancer from Jill's body.