Here is a post that Adam wrote about his Dad
Update on Dad…
As you know for the past few months, Dad has been getting chemo therapy at the MD Anderson – Clear Lake center. He gets his treatment every other week. On Mondays, he gets 2 types of drip chemo at the center and then he has to wear a pump around with him for 48 hours. During that time frame, it pumps a 3rd kind of chemo into him. Finally on Wednesday afternoons, he goes back to MD Anderson and gets the pump taken off. We been told Dad’s dosage is a very high dosage.
Today Dad went to his main MD Anderson doctor which is downtown Houston and got a PET scan done. For those unfamiliar what a PET scan is, basically it highlights all the different areas of the cancer in the body. The results were good and bad. It showed that some of the spots throughout his esophagus have shrunken. The bad news is that some of the spots have gotten bigger.
So, what they are going to do is do chemo and radiation at the same time. The certain area where they’re going to do the radiation, it’s going to make Dad’s throat very raw and hard to eat. Meaning, they will be putting a feeding tube into Dad before starting the radiation. I am not sure when that will happen, but I would assume it will be in the very near future.
Please pray for my Dad as he is very scared about having to take chemo and radiation at the same time.
The Dr. told us originally that Dennis was not a candidate for radiation because his cancer was to wide spread but now since the chemo is not working by itself they said we have to do the radiation with the chemo to fight this. Please keep him in your prayers as this period will be even harder on him them just the plain chemo treatments. I want to Thank you for all of your prayers that you have been saying.