Dalen will start a new chemotherapy treatment for the next twelve months. We were heartbroken when we received this news because we were just two months from finishing a fourteen month treatment. Dalen and I was so disappointed of this news. We had planned for some well over due vacations trips.
The new treatment will be in pill form. Of course there are new side effects they we have to learn and get use to all over again. There is also a special diet Dalen has to be on. He can no longer eat any tyramine containing foods while taking one of the new chemotherapy pills.
I was grocery shopping recently and had a breakdown right in the middle of the shopping isle. Every food, snack, or drink I thought would be health for his diet contained either soy, yeast extract, nitrates, or nitrites. Those are some of the ingredients that Dalen can no longer have. Along with smoked, aged, fermented, and cured meats (lunch meat, pepperoni, sausage, bacon, corn beef, hot dogs, etc...). All fruits and vegetables must be fresh and eaten within two days of purchased to prevented any tyramine levels. He must stay away from citric fruits such oranges, lemons, grapefruit and pineapples. There is so much more we now must be aware and cautious of.
This journey will get better is what we tell ourselves for encouragement. But in reality we just want it to be better now. We started this journey in 2012 thinking it would only take fourteen months of treatments however we are now arriving to our fourth year. Life will never be the same!
Continue to keep Dalen in your thoughts and prayers.
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