1st day of HIDAC

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This is a friend typing for Cody again: Started Round 2 of chemo yesterday around 6pm, this round is HIDAC for High-Dose Cytarabine (I’m not sure what the A stands for). It’s one of the same drugs I had in Round 1 except in a much much much larger dose. I get it twice a day, 6am and 6pm and so far it seems to have made me very fatigued so I’ve spent most of the morning lying around which is why I haven’t responded to people’s messages. I had a fever last night and a cough, they think I might have an infection so they’re putting me back on more antibiotics and did a chest x-ray. They did another echocardiogram to look at my heart and they haven’t heard back the results yet. I guess that’s all for now.

-Cody

2 Comments

  1. Collin March 14, 2016

    Incase you’re curious, the A seems to stand for Ara-C a.k.a Arabinosylcytosine which are just other names for Cytarabine.

    Source: http://www.chemocare.com/chemotherapy/drug-info/ara-c.aspx

    • cody March 14, 2016

      Thanks, I was curious!

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