SLOW AND STEADY WINS THE RACE

So we met with Dad's doctor at the Med Center this afternoon and he determined that Dad needs to go through 2 more rounds of chemo to shrink the mass a bit more. He said that he thought it would be good to use a different recipe of chemicals than what Dad just finished...and since Dad's first chemo treatments did such a good job, his doctor is recommending that he have that recipe again...this time for 2 cycles. So that means his chemo treatments will be 1 day a week, then wait 3 weeks, then 1 day of chemo, then wait 3 weeks, then have another PET/CT scan and assess things then. The doctor was very positive about the entire procedure...it will just be "plan B" and a bit of a delay.

Dad is just fine with this decision and is ok with the delay...he just wants everything to be right before proceeding. So he's in great spirits and ready to start the next batch of chemo. We'll find out when he will have that...most likely one day this week. I'll let you all know. So basically if all goes well with this, then probably the trip to the Med Center will begin the first week of April.

While we were there today, we got to see one of the cooperative care rooms and it seems to be very nice (we had seen one of the hotel rooms there before...and they are very similar, if not exactly alike). So that was good to see that and meet again with the patient coordinator who is very nice.

So after leaving the Med Center, we celebrated by going to a favorite Omaha restaurant...the Bohemian Cafe for dinner. (For those of you other than family: This is a place that Leo and I have been going to for 55+ years...since we were both little kids). Dinner consisted of: a nice cold stein of beer, rye bread, liver dumpling soup (or as Dad calls it..."dirty golf ball soup"), meat, dumpling, sauerkraut, and ended with an apricot kolace....it doesn't get a lot better than that!

I'll keep you all posted as to when Dad will be starting his chemo this week. Stay tuned.