Wednesday, February 11, 2009

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.

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