Friday was a one Doctor Day. Yea!!! Dr Mattern (oncologist) went over his schedule for his Chemo and gave us lots of reading material. For once in his life Wilroy has Dr orders to eat whatever he wants. Wilroy was very happy about that...BUT, the Dr also told him he has to tell his wife about any unusal things that are going on with him. Now, most of you know Wilroy and he's not a big talker so that will be a major undertaking for him. He still can only whisper and most likely his voice box nerve has been damaged and his voice won't come back. So, he can't scream at me for nagging him (YEA!)...like he really would. Ok, back to his schedule. He will start radiation treatment Wed (5-20) or Thur (5-21) with his Chemo starting Thur or Friday of the same week. He will have Chemo treatments once a week for 16 weeks. They will do a CT scan on weeks 7 or 8, 12, and 16 to check his progress and a PET scan after week 16. If everything looks good they will consider him in remission. All of this is based on his scan results during his treatments and subject to change. Dr Mattern said they pride themselves for not making their patients very sick so hopefully that's how it will go for Wilroy. Dr said he will lose some hair from his treatments and some from radiation, every person is different so we will see. In his defense Dr Mattern said "I will cause you to lose some of your hair but your radiation Dr will cause you to lose more" as he laughs. Wilroy is hanging in there for now. He gets tired very easily and has lost another 2 lbs this week, he's lost about 40 lbs since late December. Wilroy has wonderful compassionate Dr's and we can't say enough about how they have treated us so far. It's not everyday that you get Dr's cell phone numbers but we have them to use for any questions or concerns. Except Dr Mattern said "don't call me about appointment info as I would not have a clue, my staff keeps in line with all of that...." HA ...
Cyndie came in last night and will be here with him until Tuesday morning so we are enjoying her visit. Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers.