They let me out of the hospital on Saturday and I did OK on Sunday. I feel better after being rehydrated and I'm able to eat/drink again. still have pain but can deal with it with Percocet. Still have nausea but manageable to a pretty good extent.
Yesterday I saw Dr. Martin Hightower, a radiation oncologist at Grand View hospital, and he is going to treat the ribs for sure and possibly my skull with radiation. This is for pain management. He also put me on steroids to see if that helps the nausea.
I see him again today at 10:30AM and they are going to tattoo me (very small to locate the equipment in the same place every time). I start next Monday and will have 10 sessions M-F for two weeks. If they do only the ribs it should only take 15 minutes each time.
Of all the "traditional" doctors I've seen Dr. Hightower is one the most "aware" of CAM (Complimentary and Alternative Medicine). He is even somewhat familiar with Dr. Chang who by the way I see tomorrow at 12:00PM in NYC and has been guiding my treatment since the very beginning of my diagnosis.
I suspect that my next step will be a trip to Germany early next year for Dendritic Cell Therapy. Traditional chemo (3 different regimens) have not worked for me so I'm going the "CAM" route.
Dan
Hi Dan,
I think about you often. I spoke with Cynthia Hoffman yesterday(I sent you her website and phone number. She is awesome and will be taking care of my family "medically," from now on. Please give her a shot. She is all natural. She does muscle testing and I had it done yesterday, so did the baby. I am on 7 different supplements, I found out what organs of mine are in distress and so we are working on getting my body back to its natural state of homeostasis. I had no idea it wasn't,:(. Anyway, here is her information again, as you can see you can't get away from me :).
www.welloflifecenter.com
610 346 9080
Much love,
Jazz
Posted by: Jazmin T Bukics(Jazz) | December 04, 2008 at 09:32 AM