Hello, Mary!
How are you?
My name is Olga. I'm 28years old, actually will turn 29 on
Thanksgiving Eve.
I'm sorry to hear that your cancer got back. sorry!!! However, I
hope you can bit again!!!
I have Ewing's sarcoma in my lower area leg, and I'm having 5 day
treatment (every singe day from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.) every 5 weeks,
because between that I do have a 1 day treatment (which is effect me
even worse).
During 5 days treatment I do have exactly the same drugs that you
are having. Be honest, it's not too bad, of course I feel tired at
the end of the day however still functional. And last time I even
was lucky and recharged during weekends and went to work on Monday.
The chemo drugs go through IV approximately 1-1.5 hr, the reason why
we have to stay so long there, because these drugs effect bladder,
and protect from infection and damage we need to get 3 portion of
Mesna and of course a lot of a lot of fluids. Tomorrow my last day
of 5 day treatment, then I'll have a break for 3 weeks and I'm
scheduled for my surgery on Dec'.6. Very nervous about that, because
when I had a meeting with my surgeon on last week, they offered
another option as amputation, I was freaked, started cry and
couldn't stop, definetely was hard to hear about that any age.

However, GOD BLESS ALL OF US!!! And help us to go through that!!

Mary, just remember to drink a lot of water, and go to the bathroom
as often as you can.
Please, let me know if any other questions that I can help you with.
Also I'm a not big fan of drugs, however ATIVAN helps me, even
during chemo they usually give me 0.5 mg IV (approx. at 1 pm), just
to relax, and usually I take one pill before go to the bed.

Have a great day!
Sincerely,
Olga