Hi All,

Wednesday last week (Oct 17th) Pat had her first Avastin chemo treatment, and the following day she had an ultrasound of her legs, chest CT, and a treatment for pneumonia prevention (all of these are routine).

I arrived in town that Friday, and Pat was tired, and not responsive, she also looked uncomfortable. We find out she needs, to well (use the bathroom), and once that is taken care of her spirits lift.

The following day(Saturday), she is again very tired and has a small fever, we don’t do much, and the doctors at Duke are informed of her fever.

Sunday morning I receive a call from the home and Pat has spiked a fever of 101.1F, she is then transported to the ER. She spends 12 hours in the ER and is then admitted to the hospital.

Pat has been there since Sunday, as they try to find out what is causing the fever, she has had a barrage of tests, and they have identified a yeast infection , but not much else. On Wednesday, Pat had a spinal tap, to rule out meningitis, we don’t have word back on that yet.

I will be down there tomorrow.

Thanks for all your support,

Scott

I  did not drive down the weekend before last, however I did drive down on Thursday as opposed to me my usual Friday  this week, in order to be there to talk with her oncologist.

There is some signs via an MRI that the tunor is progressing, or that it could be contrast from bacteria infection. I am going with tumor, as she as been on plenty of the very potent antibiotics.

Anyway, her mental status during the day at the clinic (labs, MRI, Dr visit) was better than normal, showing a lot of attention etc, and some small verbal.

Since then , maybe a little slowdown, although hard to perceive. We were hoping that the gains would continue.

Because of the chance the tumor is re-emerging, she will be put on new chemo this week,  (Avastin). which brings its own set of problems, primarily the risk of clotting.

All of us are carefully watching her condition.

Thanks for all your support,

Scott