September 18, 2008

As of Wednesday (yesterday) afternoon, we have a new plan!!

They performed a PET/CT scan on me yesterday afternoon and determined that they can indeed do the Proton Radiation Treatment on me. They can avoid my heart and essentially all other vital organs with the Proton Beam. There are only 4 places in the US where this procedure exists. And MD Anderson in Houston is one of them.

All activity for me has now stopped in Houston for the moment and we are waiting now to catch a plane to ABQ tomorrow (Friday 19th) afternoon. We will be at home till Sunday Sept 28 when we return to Houston to begin the Proton Radiation treatment on Monday Sept 29. We need the time at home right now to make a lot of arrangements to take care of things while we are gone for 7 1/2 weeks. The Proton will be every weekday for 7 1/2 weeks. In addition, I will receive chemotherapy once a week during this regimen. (Goodbye Hair, Hello Nausea!!!!)

So, when we return to Houston, we will again be staying at Kenneth's house unless the regimen just becomes too strenuous to handle. In which case we would need to rent an apartment very close to MDA. We are not expecting that to happen.

There won't be any new news now until after we get back here and start the treatments. I want to thank everyone for all your recent thoughts and prayers, and ask that you continue to keep Carol and me in your prayers. - Stan