The Cancer Game Plan

We met with Dr. Stein, Lar's oncologist, yesterday to hear and understand her plan for his treatment.  We feel so fortunate that Dr. Stein is joining our team, she is patient, thorough and extremely knowledgeable - a great combo to have in an oncologist.
So, here's Larry's cancer game plan - 

1. Larry will start chemo on August 22.  He will receive 6 cycles - one every two weeks. The chemo takes approximately 4 hours to administer in the clinic.  He then will go home with a chemo pump for another 48 hours.
2. After the first round of chemo is complete, we will wait 3 weeks and then Dr. Stein will check him again-tumors, counts, etc.  
3. Dr. Salti, the surgical oncologist, will be up to bat next.  He will perform the 'chemo bath' of his abdominal area.  This surgery is no picnic so Lar will need quite a long time to recover.  He is used to the 'after surgery in the hospital' stuff (5-7 days) - he already has had major surgery. This surgery will need more recovery time after he is out of the hospital. 
4. We then will wait for him to recover, and the doctors will re-evaluate Larry and come up with a plan from there.

I can't express enough how fortunate we feel with the team of doctors Larry has chosen.  I am continually amazed at their compassion with Larry and our family.  Here's an example, Dr. Stein let us know in the meeting that she is available via text from 9AM-10PM every day for any non-emergency questions/comments.  She even took our cell phone numbers.  I thought that was very cool and she even text messsaged us yesterday a couple hours after the meeting to tell us how great it was to meet us.  We can't ask for more than that!

Lar's antibiotics should be done by Sunday, his PICC-line will be converted into a port on Monday and then it's back to work for him.  He cannot wait!!!

Sox it to it Lar...