CANCER UPDATE
Today was the followup visit with Dr. Hancock, Lou's oncologist. He said her blood work was all normal for the tests that they can get immediately. The CA125 will be available Friday. In order to keep the number down, he prescribed a maintenance prescription. Mary Kathryn asked what he would do if the CA125 jumped up like last time and he said he wouldn't hesitate to put her back on chemo because she reacts favorably to that protocol. He told her that her hair would grow back. She told about her pains that are mostly back pains, but he was interested in the occasional abdominal pain that she reported. She asked about the possibility of metatisizing to her lungs or other organs. He said it was not likely - that her problem was with abdominal growths. I think that was why he was so interested in belly pain. She told him that she doesn't like to take prescription pain pills because she doesn't want to get hooked on them. He said that she doesn't have that problem. She needs to take pain pills when she has pain. If she takes them when she doesn't have pain, then she is addicted. I have been encouraging her to take pills when she has pain, and she is trying. She took some Tylenol this morning and said she will take aspirin tonight. I hope she can control the pain because yesterday she took no pain pills and was depressed at the end of the day. Today she hurt but made the trip in a good mood.
After the appointment (the next one is scheduled for two months) we went to Barnes and Noble where Lou sat and drank Starbucks coffee. MK bought a quilting magazine and I bought two religious books. One was a book of C. S. Lewis letters expressing his theology. I wanted to buy a new novel about Tesla by a woman writer that I read in the Times Book Review, but couldn't remember the name of the book or author. Now I will have to go back and look it up. Now when I am going to find time to read any of these books is another problem.
We were able to meet Mark for lunch at noon at Schezhaun's (Sp?) off Camp Bowie. Lou enjoyed her meal and we both brought enough home for tomorrow's lunch. We expected bad weather but as of this night it has all gone north of us in hop, skip and jump storms, some packing tornados. Tonight is expected to bring another round. We need the rain but not the damaging storms. Today we had sprinkles on us going and coming.
After we got home I installed a wireless mouse to Lou's laptop that Mark gave her that will let her hopefully operate without moving the pointer around on the screen. I disabled the touchpad and buttons. We will see if that makes it more useful to her. Mark was going to install it, but we came home to skip the predicted thunderstorms.
Today was the followup visit with Dr. Hancock, Lou's oncologist. He said her blood work was all normal for the tests that they can get immediately. The CA125 will be available Friday. In order to keep the number down, he prescribed a maintenance prescription. Mary Kathryn asked what he would do if the CA125 jumped up like last time and he said he wouldn't hesitate to put her back on chemo because she reacts favorably to that protocol. He told her that her hair would grow back. She told about her pains that are mostly back pains, but he was interested in the occasional abdominal pain that she reported. She asked about the possibility of metatisizing to her lungs or other organs. He said it was not likely - that her problem was with abdominal growths. I think that was why he was so interested in belly pain. She told him that she doesn't like to take prescription pain pills because she doesn't want to get hooked on them. He said that she doesn't have that problem. She needs to take pain pills when she has pain. If she takes them when she doesn't have pain, then she is addicted. I have been encouraging her to take pills when she has pain, and she is trying. She took some Tylenol this morning and said she will take aspirin tonight. I hope she can control the pain because yesterday she took no pain pills and was depressed at the end of the day. Today she hurt but made the trip in a good mood.
After the appointment (the next one is scheduled for two months) we went to Barnes and Noble where Lou sat and drank Starbucks coffee. MK bought a quilting magazine and I bought two religious books. One was a book of C. S. Lewis letters expressing his theology. I wanted to buy a new novel about Tesla by a woman writer that I read in the Times Book Review, but couldn't remember the name of the book or author. Now I will have to go back and look it up. Now when I am going to find time to read any of these books is another problem.
We were able to meet Mark for lunch at noon at Schezhaun's (Sp?) off Camp Bowie. Lou enjoyed her meal and we both brought enough home for tomorrow's lunch. We expected bad weather but as of this night it has all gone north of us in hop, skip and jump storms, some packing tornados. Tonight is expected to bring another round. We need the rain but not the damaging storms. Today we had sprinkles on us going and coming.
After we got home I installed a wireless mouse to Lou's laptop that Mark gave her that will let her hopefully operate without moving the pointer around on the screen. I disabled the touchpad and buttons. We will see if that makes it more useful to her. Mark was going to install it, but we came home to skip the predicted thunderstorms.
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