We are here in Durham, NC at a Springhill Suites hotel waiting to leave for our first Duke lab work and an appointment with medical oncologist and kidney cancer specialist, Dr. Dan George. One of our sons, Nicholas, is keeping the home fires burning. Callie Sprague (and, of course, Marquette McKnight) are taking care of [...] [...]
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At the moment that Dr. Andrew Pippas, morphed from being my friend to becoming my medical oncologist, I already knew several things about him. I first met him in his cramped little office across the street from Doctors Hospital, well in advance of the construction of the John B. Amos Cancer Center. I was there [...] [...] We’ve got a down weekend out here in Houston. I miss home. We feel like we’ve been gone for a month. I know I have gained five pounds since we got here. It is always so much fun to explore new places to eat. Restaurants that are different from the places we always go at [...] [...] Just got a call from my urologist Dr. Christopher Wood’s scheduling nurse. We are to report to the Interventional Radiology department at M. D. Anderson on the 4th floor of the Mays Clinic at 8:30 a.m. in the morning. This meeting is to get set up for a needle biopsy of the tumor in my [...] [...] As I look around, there is a sofa, bed, kitchen, TV and other assorted furniture. You’d think I was in a hotel room and you’d be right. In addition to it being a hotel room, it is also a tiny slice of Limboland. We just left our meeting with renowned genitourinary surgeon, Dr. Christopher Wood [...] [...] Jill and I decided to make a road trip out of our upcoming journey out to Houston’s M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. We travel well together. Easy, like a Sunday morning. Amish grocery stores, funky shops, great local restaurants way off the beaten path and maybe an occasional casino might catch our attention for either [...] [...] I have used this blog to chronicle, predominately, my life with cancer since I was diagnosed in May, 2009. There have been posts that didn’t refer to cancer, but as I look back, they were few. My story has been raw at times, spiritual at others, hopeful, desperate, angry, wistful and at others, downright sad. [...] [...] After several days of scanxiety in advance of my Tuesday of this week MRI and CT scans, I have been given the results. I had an 11 a.m. appointment with Dr. Andy Pippas this morning and this is how it went: I got checked in, paid my office co-pay, donated a couple of vials of [...] [...] Times are tough, but I hope we’re coming out of the Great Recession and that folks are beginning to be able to breathe again. I know a thing or two about tough times. The past couple of years have been character builders for me and my family. What a horribly bad time for Jill and [...] [...] We leave tomorrow morning for a quick trip to Emory for a follow up on my radiosurgery with Dr. Liza Stapleford. I had an MRI without contrast media last week. Since Dr. Pippas ordered the MRI, he’ll have to give the OK for the radiology department at The Medical Center to release a disk containing [...] [...] |
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