With the help of my Dad’s doctor and the staff at MD Anderson, they were able to convenience the insurance people to “approve” the proton radiation. Dad’s first radiation treatment is tomorrow at 8:30pm, but he needs to be there at 7:30pm.

Starting Monday, he will be getting chemo at MD Anderson – Clear Lake and radiation at MD Anderson – Downtown. The next 5 1/2 – 6 weeks is going to be very long for my dad.

Hi everyone

Unfortunately Dennis’s Radiation has been put on hold for only a couple of days hopefully. Why??? Insurance!!!!!! The Dr. is wanting to give him Proton Radiation which it just zooms in on the cancer a little more than reg radiation. It won’t hurt his heart and lungs as much like reg radiation will. Unfortunately our ins does not cover the facility that does it so we had to put in for an urgent appeal. Hopefully will know something at the end of this next week. If all else fails then he will get reg. radiation but this Proton Radiation is so good that the Dr. is willing to wait a few days to see if we can get the ins. to change there minds and put this facility in network for us. So for now he won’t start radiation on Tues. but hopefully before Fri. This is just going to get worse with this new medical that Obama put in. Just what Americans need more complications in the medical field. I will let you know when he starts radiation we are ready. We have the IV poles, IV bags for the liquid food, the liquid food and all dressings etc to keep his feeding tube line clean. Thanks everyone for saying so many prayers. As I truly believe in prayer so this helps our family a lot.

Dear friends and Family,

As most of you know Dennis had a PET scan and it showed the chemo is not doing what it is suppose to. So they said he will have to have radiation. Since the radiation is going to make his esophagus raw he has to have a feeding tube put in. Well we have been waiting since the 31st to get this schedule. Dennis takes a blood thinner called Pradaxa so he has to go off of it for a week before any surgery. So we were getting concerned because no one was calling and they cancel his chemo treatments and we knew it would be a week or more after they called to have the feeding tube put in. Well they finally called after I called yesterday and had a firm voice on what is going on!

Today, Dennis got an appointments for the feeding tube which the proper name for it is a peg tube he goes tomorrow for the following things and then he will actually be having the procedure done on the 13th.

· Feb. 8th he sees the radiologist dept. for a pre procedure evaluation.
· Feb. 8th Then he see the Nutrition to tell us how the feeding tube is going to work and the food, just the main information.
· Feb. 8th Then he check in to see the anesthesia
· Feb. 8th Then he actually sees the anesthesia Dr. for pre surgery

· Feb. 11th Mon. he sees the radiation oncology consultant

· Feb. 13th Wed. @ 7 am he will have to check in for Intervention exam
· Feb. 13th @ 8 am they will put in the feeding tube or Peg tube
· Feb. 13th @ 12 pm they will feed him for 3 hours to make sure every thing is working right.

· Feb. 14th they will call with a phone follow up
· Feb 14th we go see Dr. Ajani which is his main Dr. he will tell us at that point how much radiation if chemo is also going to be just what is what.

Wow going to be a busy week!!

This has to work

GOD WILL MAKE IT WORK!!!!
Everyone keep us in your prayers