The treatment plan

First, updates. Bone marrow sample did NOT show his large cell cancer, aka, it has not matastized to the bone. And Mike has been walking during treatment, two walks daily, a big circle on "5 North."

The big picture on his treatment is five days (or so) inpatient chemo, three weeks off, five days in, three weeks out.  Expecting six cycles, but subject to change if tests show it should change, or he becomes intolerant of one of the drugs.

More specifically Mike gets R-EPOC:
One bag of Rituxan, dripping in over four hours
Four bags of Etoposide/Doxorubicin//Oncovin, each of which drip in over 24 hours (yup, almost 100 hours of drip-drip-drip)
One bag of Cytoxan -- we don't know yet how long it runs.

There are certain periods where Mike's blood counts will be low, when we will have to be extra careful to avoid possible exposure to germs.