Status and treatment plans

It dawned on me that I have not provided much detail on the diagnosis and what we know about treatment.  So for those interested in the deets here they are:

• First, and foremost, I am extremely thankful to my sister-in-law for hooking us up with Dr Fayad.  https://faculty.mdanderson.org/profiles/luis_fayad.html  He is obviously very experienced and well published, and has a great sense of humor to boot.  My kind of doc.  He will QB the process from MD Anderson.
• The actual treatment will be in Va Beach with Va Oncology and we think Dr Lee who was my doc back when we thought this was non-small cell lung cancer.  We are still working on getting in with him soon, through some friends close to the group.
• I will be on R-EPOCH which is a pretty intense chemo regime where I will be in the hospital hooked up to a bag for 5 straight days.  I then get 2 weeks off.  Then repeat for 3 cycles and go back to Houston for another work up.  I am told that Rituximab, which is a bio drug, is a key drug in this mix.
• Work ups include a bone marrow aspiration and bone biopsy which is essentially taking a core out of the back side of my pelvis bone (they should offer this at Sandals.  it is a real treat).   PET Scan, blood work, and I think ECG and EKG.  From there Dr. Fayad can eval me and figure out if I need 3 more cycles.  At this point he has said it will likely be 6 cycles.     

That's about it.  Once we figure out what hospital and when and all that, we will communicate that out.  Please feel free to come visit.  Staring at walls, and the boob tube on the wall, is going to be boring!

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