Attached are the notes from yesterday’s doctor visit. You will see that he
ordered several blood test again, the main one rechecking the kidney. He is
also checking on dad’s anemia and if it is too low he will order a blood
transfusion for dad.
Dad is primarily concerned with his control problems and told the doctor
that the stream is better sometimes, but that the frequency is not. The doctor
told him that it might take time for the swelling to go down and see some
improvements in the frequency.
He reviewed all his medications and told him to continue all the
prescription meds.
Dad was given a cream for the rash on his back, but the doctor was unsure
as to what caused the rash.
The doctor also told dad that he has swollen limp nodes about 1 inch
around. These were detected on the CAT scan they did of his kidney a few days
before his surgery. The doctor told us that to evaluate them they would have to
open him up from his belly and work their way to the back to biopsy them, they
are located near his back, but there is no easy way to go in from his back. If
it is cancer, then the chemo treatment would have to be sever to have a chance
of killing them.
The doctor also discussed his anemia stating that they would like to go
into his bone marrow in his thigh to see why it is not making enough red blood
cells.
Dad refused both procedures and told the doctor, fix the frequency problem
first and we can talk about what is next.
We did talk dad into trying a sleeping pill at night to see if he can sleep
better. Dad wrote down every time he got up the night before his doctors
appointment and it was at least once per hour. He did try 1/2 pill last night
and said it wasn’t much better, but he didn’t get up until Tom went over at 9:45
am and did have a 2 1/2 hour period where he didn’t wake up.
Dad’s next steps are:- Blood test again the week of Feb 28th.- Drs appointment on March 7th at 2:45 pm with Dr Nichols- Follow up with Dr Chang on April 25th at 11:40 am.Tom, let me know if I missed anything.
Love to all,
Bill
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