Yesterday was a big step forward! Dwayne went back to the rehab unit for their outpatient program. This is where he was an inpatient in May. He will now go three mornings a week for their day program. The doctors and therapist think he is strong enough to be able to do the three hours sessions. He actually got approved three weeks ago, but we had to wait for an opening. The home speech and physical therapists who had working with him fought the insurance company to be able to keep coming until he got into the day program. He has made a lot of progress in the last month. Very grateful to them!
Next Monday and Tuesday will be important days. On Monday he will have the first MRI since May. I am a little apprehensive. Even if it shows all the lesions are gone most likely there will be more chemo. His local oncologist and the neuro-onclogist at UCLA have said because this is so rare and they know it is aggressive, they want to do more treatment. The local doctor said he has only seen it twice in 13 years of practice. The neuro-onclogist said that of the hundreds of people that they see a year, only about 5% are this type. So they both wanted Dwayne seen by a lymphoma specialist. This will be on Tuesday morning at UCLA.
Thanks for all the prayers, encouragement and other practical things you have done for us over the past four months!
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