After a pretty quiet day, Susan felt the need to take both a vicodin and a phenergan pill tonight for pain and nausea. I'm hoping that this is just the usual reaction to the chemo and not something more serious. We were told that the TLK itself only circulates in the body for 24 hours. However, any TLK that penetrates the cancer cells continues to do its "death squad" work for an additional period. I suppose this might give rise to nausea. Since this is a clinical trial, we don't have a lot of data to go on about the side effects of previous patients. Your prayers as always will be appreciated for both pain control and nausea reduction.
Posted by John Dishman at March 30, 2003 12:13 AM