Thanks to everyone for all the positive thoughts and prayers. Kev says it would be great to have visitors, so if you’d like to visit with him, he is in rm 1015 near elevator E at MDA. His phone# is 713-834-8787. He will be here at least thru next Friday when the Radiation Therapy is expected to end. He also enjoys the comments – there’s a wireless connection throughout the hospital and we can log in from his room.
Palliative care changed up the meds again. They’ve increased the Methadone and Lyrica to 3 x a day and they added Celebrex (an anti-inflammatory). The Oncologists has started him on a new chemotherapy – Temodar. He has had to stop the Ipilimumab for now but Temodar synergizes well with radiation so that’s the best alternative. He has taken Temodar before for treatment of the brain tumors and it had little side effects. They are administering it with Zofran (anti-nausea) just in case. Since the radiation is focused on the spinal tumors, the Temodar is being used for all the others.
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