Life in a Clinical Trial

Well if you didn't guess by the blog title, Dad got into the clinical trial!! After three days of tests, blood draws, and MRI's last week they gave Dad the go ahead to start on Monday. After looking over all of his scans everything looked good! No cancer has spread to the bones and the lung and adrenal tumor have not changed as far as they can tell in comparison to the last scan we did...gosh 10 weeks ago already!? Time is really flying by.

Monday was day 1 of the trial which started at 7am. They immediately started blood work and EKG's. At 9 Dr. Weiss and his whole team came in to do exams and got Dad set up to do the chemo using his port. Dad said it was like a scene from MASH with everyone in the room, 8-9 people in that little room! The chemo itself is only 30 minutes! The rest of the day is spent waiting for them to be able to do blood work and EKG's. They wait a precise amount of time (and I mean to the minute) in between each test in order to measure how the chemo is circulating through his body and to make sure it isn't doing anything it isn't supposed to. We spent the day watching a sci fi channel marathon of a show I can't remember the name of and NCIS. Everyone was really nice and Dad already has a best friend at TGen named Brian...but I know no one is surprised :). Although the treatment days are 9 hour days we all agreed they didn't seem like the 9 hour days we had at MD Anderson. I think this trial is going to be a cake walk for Dad!

This is Dad getting his EKG (look at that 6pack)

Dad goes back to TGen for blood and EKG's Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday during this week. Next week he will go back just one day for some testing and then the process starts over the following week so he will get his next chemo Monday November 5th. So far no side effects and we really don't expect Dad to have any. Dad is feeling the best he has felt in a really long time and for that we are soo blessed!! Today him and Cunningham are playing golf and enjoying the beautiful weather we are having here in Phoenix!

Hotties!

I feel like so much has gone on the last week but my brain could easily be compared to a scrambled egg right now (hence the jumbled blog post). So for now know treatment is great, Dad is amazing, and we are so blessed by all of the family, friends, and prayers around us. Love you all!