Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Time to find a doctor

So we start to research doctors. As luck would have it(guess we have to
be grateful for the little things) we find a top doc. at a hosp. just 20 minutes from our house. He specializes in MM and was at the Arkansas
hospital for a number of years. Everyone we asked said "he's the man."
The hosp. is also one of the top 50 hospitals in the country. There's got
to be some upside to living in striking distance of where the terrorists
like to hit. We've got good doctors. After our first appt., Tim is put on
Revlimid and pulse Dex(4 days on, 4 days off) as well as tons of prophelactic meds to ward off the bad bugs that much Dex could make
you vulnerable to. Results were very good. IGG fell almost in half.
He was taken off pulse Dex and put on 1x per week when new study showed too many people dying from high dose Dex. Stayed on Rev.
and continued to do very well.

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