July 3rd

I spoke to the oncologist this morning. Most of what he told me was helpful.
He said that for the stage of the leukemia, the disease is actually progressing very slowly, even though dad is not getting treatment.
The blasts(immature, faulty, white blood cells) are crowding the bone marrow and causing a lot of the pain dad is experiencing. He asked permission to start hydroxyurea today. This should help alleviate some of the bone pain. we decided to start that soon.
He also thought that the changes in his eye did not come from simple bleeding. He thought this was due to blasts invading his eyes. Thankfully blasts respond well to radiation treatment in small areas like the eye. They are going to do a trial of radiation. If his eye pain, swelling and vision changes are due to blasts, the radiation should help him feel better fairly soon.






Get well dad, we hope you are able to weather another storm well.
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