Today was Jerry's third (3rd) treatment. The Good News is that his PSA went from a high of 26.9 to 18.0 (last week) to 4.96 yesterday. However, this was not going to be a normal routine visit. It started when the nurse was going to access his port and noticed the area was swollen to about the size of 1/2 tennis ball and very dark purple. Lydia said "I'm not touching that port". Lydia call Dr. Javadi to take a look and Dr. Javadi said we needed to go and see Dr. Bilchik, MD PH.D FACS Surgical Oncology. However, Dr. Bilchik was in OR and could not be reached. Drs. office left him a message to call back. In the mean time, Drs. office started did additional blood cultures to determine if their was an infection and started the Chemo and Hormone Blockade IV's. As Jerry was relaxing getting his IV's. Dr. Bob stopped and said hello and asked how Jerry was doing. Jerry said okay, but mentioned the port which Dr. Bob took a look at and immediately said we need to aspirate this hemotomin immediately. He called the nurse to move Jerry from the infusion room into an examination room. Once moved they started sedating Jerry for the procedure. Dr. Bob, Dr. Javadi, Mary PA, Carla PA, Lydia were all in the room working and/or observing as Dr. Bob extracted approximately 5cc of stuff out of the port area. For a while there it was kinda a circus. Otherwise, the treatment went as expected. About 11:00pm Jerry started feeling the sedation wear off but, then started having diarrhea and had about 12 bouts with it until about 3:00am. Will update you as Jerry's condition changes.
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So very glad to hear that Jerry's PSA went *w*a*y* down, but sorry to hear about the port site! I've heard that sometimes they can have problems. When they work...they are great, but they can also be a source of infection! As always, keeping you both in our prayers!
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