4-28-09

Went to American Lake VA hospital today, they took an x-ray and did blood tests. The doctor gave Gator steroids and Pseudoephedrine and it seems to be helping already. He’s also wearing his Oxygen again now.

5-1-09

Friday:

Well Dr. Mann just called (Gator’s General Practitioner) to tell us that Gator doesn’t have MRSA or Swine Flu and that his lungs look much better. Then she said that his Prostate screening results are back and they’re supposed to be less than four and he’s at 8.3….she says it may not be prostrate cancer but she wants him to come back in to retest. Gator’s dad had prostate cancer so the odds are not good. I feel like my heart is breaking again…Gator of course is being his same old positive self saying it could be so many other things like is age, or one of the meds. He’s on causing the high number. He says; “oh well if it is prostate cancer it’s just another set back!”

5-05-09

We went to Lakewood today to have blood drawn for another PSA (Prostate) test.

I called Ellen Nason today and she had me call the Seattle VA and schedule a CT scan of Gator’s lungs for Monday, May 11^th and then we have an appointment on the 12^th with the oncologist to discuss how everything is going…The end of May he will get the MRI to make sure the stuff in the brain hasn’t changed.

5-08-09

I finally called the VA because they never called us with the results! The second PSA test came back at 6.3 which means it dropped. That’s good news. The doctor said we will just wait for two months and then test again and see what happens. It could still be prostate cancer but that type of cancer grows and spreads so slowly that he really doesn’t need to worry about it right now. He just needs to take care of the lung cancer for now….