Preliminary Treatment Plan

I have yet to meet with my oncologist and I still have to get some more scans and all that, so we have no sure idea what is next or when exactly I will begin treatment. However, most likely I will go through chemotherapy for about 6 months, starting in a week or so, and possibly I will have radiation to kill the tumor that is in my hip bone (acetabular cup and the illium).

The Chemotherapy would be administered as an out-patient procedure, so I will not plan on spending much time in the hospital as a patient (I do work at Packard Children's Hospital, so I plan to be there for that). There is a couple ways the treatment will affect me though:
1. I will go bald (this will be hillarious)
2. I will feel fatigued (hopefully I will overcome this and still be able to coach and work all the time)
3. I will be susceptible to getting sick when my white blood cell counts get lowered from the chemo (I will possibly wear a mask)

Radiation would just locally fry the tumor. This may or may not be done. Surgery is unlikely, so I probably will not be able to use my right leg as a lamp shade like I was thinking of doing if they had to lop it off.

Next steps for me are:
1. go to the oncologist
2. get a CT scan and maybe a PET Scan and maybe bone-marrow biopsy
3. "stage" my cancer...find out how tough and how far along this cancer is