Wednesday, August 7, 2013

About four months ago our lives changed forever.  Dad was diagnosed with lung cancer which is not curable.  We started out going to the lung doctor (Boyle) here in Decatur.  Dad has a mass in his upper right lung and a lymph node in the middle of his chest.  He started taking chemo and radiation on those areas after CT and PET scans, xrays, and lab tests that went on for about two weeks.  We had to drive to Huntsville every day during the week for radiation treatments.  Once a week to Dr. Lobo's for chemo.  He did very well during the treatments.  Those lasted for 8 weeks.  He is finished with all that now but not feeling very good.  He has better days and not so good days.  He had to take hydration infusion every day but we were able to give that to him at home through Beckey's work place NPHC.   Since he has been off the hydtration he hasn't felt so good so we started that back again this week.  He is due for a PET scan this Friday and we will see Dr. Lobo next week.   It has been a bunch of doctor visits, pharmacy visits, medicine, tests for weeks.