Are you Caring for a Partner & Parents with Dementia/Alzheimers
Just wondering how many of us are actively caring for partners or parents with dementia/alzheimers? If there are enough interested in doing so, we could ask the mods for our own group, to discuss...
Woohoo!! Hubby's markers are down again this week! One is even in the 'normal' range now!! The other one is still 100+ over - but has come down heaps over the last 3 treatments!! So our Onc (and us) are VERY happy!!
The foot was looking REALLY GOOD too .... but then it started peeling yet again (about the 3rd peel now over the last 3-4 months!) So we are playing around with the Capecitabine tablets to try & reduce the peeling, specially now that the markers are going down. He only took 1/2 the tablets last treatment (after the infusion) and the markers STILL went down, so that is good to know!
The good news is that he is not in pain or discomfort ..... even with the foot (only one of them!) looking like this. It went like this the first time he did chemo too back in 2010 - and the toenails never really recovered.
We've tried Moogoo, NS8 & NS21, Cetaphil, Sorbolene, and a couple more .... any suggestions??
most of the front of the foot is peeling now ...
It destroys the toenails too :( I clip off the dry scaly skin and then smother it in cream or ointment ....
He has another PET Scan at the end of the month .... to compare with the one in Jan. That will be very interesting!
