Thursday Feb 26th 8:30 PM

Buel had his Dr. appt this afternoon and then had chemo treatment. He finished up at 7 but had to wait 1 hour to make sure he didn't have a reaction. He is doing fine. However, the chemo does cause a rash and he developed a rash about 1 week ago from the first treatment. So, we are assuming that the rash will just get worse. The Dr. may also combine a pill form of chemo with the iv infusion that he is getting. Buel's platelets were up today 102,000 and have been being around 54,000, which is great! So, he is doing good and feels pretty good. His next chemo treatment is Monday, March 16th. Thanks for reading and praying for us. God bless you.

Chemo Thursday Feb 26th

We will be leaving Thursday, Feb 26th for Buel's next chemo treatment. His first appt of several appts is Thursday at 12:45 pm and has chemo at 5 pm. We will be spending the night since it will be too late to come home. This will be his 2nd treatment of the Erbitux. Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers.

Wed Feb 11th 3:00 pm

Buel has just started his chemo treatment and so we are not coming home tonight. It would be after 11 before we could get home so we are just going to stay here tonight and go home in the morning.

Wed Feb 11th 11:46 am

We visited with Dr. Rivers today and the test he did on his 2005 tumors came back highly mutated which means he can take the drug "Erbatux" and have insurance pay for it. This is the drug that Dr. Chittoor in Mesquite would not give Buel because if he gave it to him and Medicare audited his file, we would have to pay back $144,000 for all the treatments. However, Dr. Chittoor did not run the proper test (KRAS test) and Dr. Rivers did which showed that it WAS highly mutated. So, I have a beeper on and we are waiting for them to be able to give Buel chemo. We had actually visited with all the Drs., checked out of our room, and were waiting on valet to get our car when they called on my cell and said the test had just come back and he could give him the Erbatux infusion. So, I had them load the car with our luggage and park it again. We have a chemo education class at 1:30 and he cannot take the chemo until he finishes the education class. The infusion is about 1 hour long and we plan on heading home as soon as he finishes with the chemo. Thanks.

Tuesday Feb 10th 4:00 pm

We are here. Buel has already registered and done his lab work. His first appt is tomorrow the 11th at 8 am and we have appts all day long. So far, all we have are appts the 11th. If so, we may attempt to come home tomorrow afternoon but not sure. Thanks for praying for Buel.

Monday Feb 9th

We will be leaving for the Cancer Treatment Center in Tulsa, OK again tomorrow, Feb 10th. He has lab work on the 10th and then Dr. Rivers appt at 8 am on the 11th. Not sure how many other appts he will have or what they have in mind. Hope it doesn't ice again like it did last time.