Surprise overnight stay!

We met the medical oncologist today and Robin's white blood cell count is good. We're on schedule for her to start again next week. Oddly enough the Monday holiday impacts us because the hospital is expected to be overwhelmed with admissions on Tuesday, our 21st day. We were offered to start on Monday or Wednesday and we chose to start on Monday morning.

We also met with the radiation oncologist. Robin said this disease (SNUC) "snuck" up on her and he said sarcastically "I never heard that one before". In effort to impress him Robin then sang her cancer song which goes something like "I've got a tumor on my face, I'm a special medical case". Guess we'll have to film that for the weblog ;)

He described how they will apply radiation not only directly to the tumor, but also to all the sinuses. Just like chemo, they will not just target the obvious mass. He said no matter where they think the cancer cells reside, they always show up in adjacent areas. He asked that we come back in tomorrow to start the preparations. Tomorrow they will create a mask which helps position Robin's head at each treatment, and helps to protect certain areas of her head from the radiation.

Our Tuesday appointment is late in the day so we get the morning off! We'll head home Tuesday night and plan to be back here Sunday night for the start of chemo round two! Robin did do the chemo dance today, but it wasn't quite as enthusiastic.