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.
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