Miami Treatment #2

We drove through the tropical storm to arrive in Miami by 0700 Tuesday morning. We called prior to leaving the house as the hospital did advise that they might close due to the weather. Luckliy they continued to operate and we sped through the registration process as I believe many people did cancel their appointments. Treatment finished at 3:00 PM today-Wednesday and we were back home by 4:00PM. Dennis seems to be tolerating this therapy well and hasn't had many symptons that they said he could. We have an "off" week and will be leaving tomorrow to take Brian out to the University of Wyoming to begin his freshmen year. We are very happy that he has such a great opportunity ahead and will be joining his sister Natalie.
Our next treatment will be September 2-3.
We are very much looking forward to this much needed break from doctors,hospitals,testing etc..
Thank you for your continued prayers and support!

Change of Course

During our last visit with Dr. Grabelsky in Boca on 29July he moved up the CT scan to August 4 from 25August -3 weeks- to check progress due to the pain Dennis was experiencing. Dennis completed his 5th Chemo session on our current regiment on 31July. We scheduled an appointment in Miami for August 7th to review the results of the scan and our progress so far.
The scan showed the situation to be "stable" no progression of the disease but no improvement after 2 months of this Chemotherapy. Dr. Ardalan in Miami strongly suggested changing course of treatment with a different regiment of Chemotherapy. Dr. Grabelsky felt we should continue with our current regiment for the full course of 6 months.
We have taken a "leap of faith" and have decided to switch to the University of Miami Sylvester Cancer Center for futher treatments with Dr. Ardalan and begin a more aggressive regiment .
Treatment in Miami is for 2 days Tuesday/Wednesday and does require an overnight stay. We will have 2 weeks therapy and then 1 week off for recovery. We started 12August and will reevaluate in 2 months with another CT scan.
Natalie will be leaving tomorrow for Wyoming . She has "band camp" for 1 week prior to class for color guard. Brian will be heading out August 21 to Wyoming and we will take our "off week" time and go to Wyoming as well to get him settled in as an incoming freshman!
Thank you for your continued prayers.

This being the 5th Chemo poison
episode in the 12 pac procedure.
And as always the symptoms are
different from the previous 4
sessions. I went into the NBC
facility for hook up last Tue
Wed and Thursday. Go for the same
dose of Anthrax or what ever.
Smoothing sailing, or OK for
somebody on chemo. I (?)
expected for my physically off
days to be Friday & Saturday +
maybe Sunday. Wrong, I had'
a great day Fri and Sat. Sunday
it started and Monday Tuesday
were pretty low as well.
I'm trying to throw off the
Chemo effect and get back to 100%
this wed 8/6. I still have
the sores on my tongue which
makes it difficult to eat any
thing. Oh well, no one said
it was easy. And I have two
choices, follow the program
or go get the pine box.
Check Six.
Denny