For friends and family of Dave Page

For friends and family of Dave Page

This blog is to keep family and friends posted on dad's treatments and how he's doing in his battle with pancreatic cancer.



Wednesday, February 2, 2011

St Louis rescheduled to next week

Because of our little blizzard (20 inches of snow here in Seneca, while they only got 4 inches in St Louis - the opposite of normal), the Joplin Freeman cancer center was closed yesterday and today, so dad's chemo treatment was cancelled. We will reschedule it when they re-open tomorrow. We also rescheduled the procedure in St Louis (getting a metal marker for the radiation, and replacing the stent for the pancreas) from this Thursday to next Thursday, which basically pushes the whole schedule out a week.

One unfortunate result of the storm: they had taken dad off warfarin pills and put him on the Lovinox injection to prepare for the St Louis surgery - and now he's on it for extra days.  The med is fine for him medically, but it is VERY expensive; 10 day supply was over $100 copay.  We'll talk to the cancer center tomorrow to see if they want him to take it all the way to next Thursday.

Today Gary and I may do a little snow shoveling (a novelty for us SoCal kids), maybe make a snowman and some snow angels.  It's warm out there - all the way up to 8 degrees today.

1 comment:

  1. Good Luck with all the rescheduling. The snow sure looks deep and cold. Becareful driving around in Sherwood Forest.
    Love Ray & Angie

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