Thanks Barbara T for posting the previous. Some new news about the sample down to LA thing below. Dr. Hassan will tomorrow help schedule a meeting or at least a phone conversation with Dr. Irwin (oncologist) to talk about prognosis, quality of life.... Whether or not she's successful she'll be in touch tomorrow morning. If anyone has a question you want to air with Harold's oncologist how about if you leave it in the comments here..I'll try and check this blog before I head out tomorrow.
Also...To help with stabilizing kidney function in order to move forward with confronting the cancer, Doc says they are likely very soon (tomorrow, or next day?) to start a chemotherapy (I forget the particular drug). This will be a preliminary thing, not a longer range plan.
Lastly, what some probably know already. The newer thinking on the kidney failure is that actually an intrusion of the lymphoma itself. So it's Multiple Myeloma accompanied by, kidney lymphoma I guess you'd call it. This has been on the horizon for a while, I guess they've settled on it. They'll do a biopsy to confirm or rule out. A good opportunity for Harold to to arrange a tissue sample to send down to the lab he wants to use. Doctor team has expressed its reservations today but they'll go with it, so finally maybe some resolution coming on that front.
Re: cranberries, H. says no cranberries after all - they're on the bad list, but pasta's good.
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ReplyDeleteHarold has requested Olive and Walnut oils, which I will bring when I visit him today. My understanding is that his diet (to spare his kidneys) severly restricts Potassium, Sodium and Phosphorus and red meats. This would eliminate all citrus and many other fruits as well a nuts. He also requested hard-boiled organic eggs (whose feed included olive oil). This may be a hard order to fill -- I have no ideas. The eggs should be delivered in the special carrier used by backpackers to keep them sanitary and unbroken.