Addendum to Oncology appointment 08/14; 08/15

This month Jerry has a terrible time with constipation... his constipation and the pain associated with it was so bad this month that I was concerned Jerry might cause himself a heart attack. Jerry's doctor is changing Jerry's regiment from taking stool softener's (1-3 day) to a laxative (1 every day). I won't go into any disgusting details but Jerry overdosed on the stool softener's and now he's paying for it several days later. I am sure going (not a pun) from one extreme (being constipated) to another (diarrhea) is not good for his body every month. So hopefully, making this switch will help to avoid this situation in the future. Over the past several months to the last year, this situation was also progressively getting worse.

Oncology Appointment - August 13, 2007

Today's appointment was pretty routine, with the exception of his commute up to Century City the Monday traffic was horrible for him getting up to his appointment. The medications that Jerry received were the typicals IV's. Jerry's PSA has risen to 5.7 which is getting high. Jerry's PSA has been creeping up there every month for the last six months, or so. The doctor wanted to add an additional shot (injection) however, the insurance company denied payment of this shot because Jerry is not currently on Chemo Therpy. Jerry will be repeating the CBC (complete blood count) next week and the doctor may consider chemo therpy as the next step. We will see...

MRI of the Left shoulder - Follow-up

Just wanted to let everyone know that the oncologist doctor has called us to basically let us know that the MRI shows no tears in the left shoulder. However, the oncologist says the MRI does show tendinitis and arthritis and perhaps a follow-up with an orthopedic physician is the recommended course of action for further investigation this is outside of his expertise.