Hope everyone had a great holiday season. Dad has not been feeling well now for quite some time. He had a scheduled MRI today to determine if the chemo was doing anything to the tumors. Dad has been getting pretty anxious because he has been able to feel the tumors more than before and so he thought they were getting bigger. Mom and I have both been telling him that it was because he has lost so much weight. Well, the MRI confirmed that the tumors have not changed. This is good news. Because everything seems to be in neutral, the doctor told him that he can reduce his chemo treatments to every other week. They have also given him a new pain medicine that should help with the effects of his UT infection.
His blood count was down and so they have scheduled him to have a blood transfusion on Friday. That will take about 8 hours. The unfortunate thing is that Friday was when he was scheduled to see his urologist so he needs to reschedule that. They are also going to need to retest his oxygen at the request of insurance. This means to have an accurate reading he will need to stop using it for a few days.
Thanks again for all of the prayers and words of encouragement. We appreciate all of you.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
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