Week 9
10th October, 2012
Ninth Velcade injection Dose (2mg)
administered through the Vein on Mummy’s hand using a 5ml syringe and a Scalp
Vein Set followed by Dexamethasone 20mg tablets on 10th and 11th
October 2012, respectively.
Deeply troubled
by all the stomach related problems Mummy was facing in those days and weeks, on
10th October 2012, we again visited GI-3 at Hospital No.4 to discuss
mom’s issues and he advised her to take Ganoton or Cintapro when
faced with acidity/gas problem.
Week 10
17th October, 2012
Tenth Velcade injection Dose (2mg)
administered through the Vein on Mummy’s hand using a 5ml syringe and a Scalp
Vein Set followed by Dexamethasone 20mg tablets on 17th and 18th
October 2012, respectively.
Stomach/Abdominal
pain related issues continued to trouble Mom.
Week 11
24th October, 2012
Eleventh Velcade injection Dose (2mg)
administered through the Vein on Mummy’s hand using a 5ml syringe and a Scalp
Vein Set followed by Dexamethasone 20mg tablets on 24th and 25th
October 2012, respectively.
This time around, post the medication,
Mummy complained of severe Pain in lower right back
and right hips. We got an MRI Screening of Mummy’s Spine and X-Rays of the Back
done on the advice of Orthopedic Doctor O-1 at Hospital No. 4. All reports
categorically and thankfully stated that, “no obvious pathology detected”, and
on 25 October 2012, O-1, prescribed my mom to take a 7-day course of Ultracet
tablet, twice daily course. This course of medication helped and mummy’s pain
in the backs and hips, subsided.
Week 12
1st November, 2012
Twelfth Velcade injection Dose (2mg)
administered through the Vein on Mummy’s hand using a 5ml syringe and a Scalp
Vein Set followed by Dexamethasone 20mg tablets on 1st and 2nd
November 2012, respectively.
Week 13
8th November, 2012
Thirteenth Velcade injection Dose (2mg) administered
through the Vein on Mummy’s hand using a 5ml syringe and a Scalp Vein Set
followed by Dexamethasone 20mg tablets on 8th and 9th
November 2012, respectively.
Abdominal pain continued to bother Mom
as it has done every week since this Velcade-Dexamethasone treatment began.
Week 12 and Week 13 were no different.
Week 14
15th November, 2012
Fourteenth Velcade injection Dose (2mg)
administered through the Vein on Mummy’s hand using a 5ml syringe and a Scalp
Vein Set followed by Dexamethasone 20mg tablets on 15th and 16th
November 2012, respectively.
Mummy contracted Severe Gastrointestinal
Infection (GI) on 21st November 2012, she spent that night vomiting
and passing loose stools. I relied on two tablets, named Imodium and Domstal
that were written about in the Discharge Summary of Hospital No. 3 where she
was admitted in July 2012 to provide her immediate relief on the middle of that
night. On 22nd November 2012, I took Mom to Hospital No. 4 to get
her examined by GI-3, whom we trusted. GI-3 put Mom on a 5-day antibiotic
course containing the following medicines, I read about all of them on the
internet as I was by now, habituated into doing:
o
ORNI-O: BD i.e. Twice daily
o
VSL3: OD i.e. Once daily
o
Colimax: BD i.e. Twice daily
o
Rablet
D: BD i.e. Twice daily
o
Imodium: SOS i.e. as required during emergency
Week 15
26th November, 2012
We delayed the 15th Dose of
2mg Velcade by 3 days till Mummy’s gastrointestinal infection post the 14th
dose intake had subsided and she was comfortable enough.
Fifteenth Velcade injection Dose (2mg)
administered through the Vein on Mummy’s hand using a 5ml syringe and a Scalp
Vein Set followed by Dexamethasone 20mg tablets on 26th and 27th
November 2012, respectively.
The 5-day Antibiotic course for Severe
GI Infection was repeated by us in the week post 15th dose on GI-3’s advice
To combat her throat infection, she was
also put on a twice daily course of Allegra 120mg tablets for 3 days, on the
advice of H-2
Week 16
3rd December 2012
Sixteenth and the final Velcade
injection Dose (2mg) administered through the Vein on Mummy’s hand using a 5ml
syringe and a Scalp Vein Set followed by Dexamethasone 20mg tablets on 3rd
and 4th December 2012, respectively. Mom and me breathed a sigh of
relief and went to the Cafeteria downstairs for our Tea and snacks, it was a
customary practice for us both after our weekly ordeal at H-2’s private OPD
Clinic at Hospital No. 3; that evening was special for us both, we thought and
celebrated as if our bad and tough days were now behind us.
H-2 had asked us to get Mom’s Free Light
Chain Assay and Beta2 Microglobulin Tests done again and we did give the
samples the next day for testing.
