Round Three - day one of chemo

Before chemo started today, we met with Dr. T. He expressed his pleasure with the good news of the scans and went over them with us a little bit. The amount of shrinking of the tumor in the lung is really something to celebrate. He said the newer tumor on the T10 is actually in the bone, so Les will be receiving a dose of medicine through the IV every three weeks to prevent the cancer from spreading to other bones. His extreme weakness could be attributed to his very low blood pressure. They were going to give him something for that, too.

Dr. T shared that our tentative plan is to do six rounds of chemo (round three began today). After round four, we will scan again (approximately July 28). If there is no progress at that time (sometimes chemo plateaus) he wouldn't recommend further treatments. He is disappointed the legs aren't moving more and indicated after this long, he probably won't regain full use of them. The memory issues (word retrieval/short term memory/etc) could be attributed to a variety of factors (chemo, meds, depression, radiation) and is one of the more frustrating parts of the illness for Les. The bladder infection may also still be hanging around...they were going to culutre it and get back to us.

We are so thankful he is pain free. Thank you for all your prayers during this time in our lives. We would appreciate your continued prayers that he remians pain free and that his words and memories appear when he wants/needs them. Thanks for checking in and sending the birthday wishes his way!