Dad had all his appointments this morning which led to a very busy morning. He was fitted for the radiation mask and this pillow that will sit underneath his head while the radiation is given. We still don't have a date set for when radiation will start, we'll hopefully know within a week or so. Dad had another MRI and CT scan done this morning and the doctors will want to look at those results to come up with a game plan for radiation.
We were able to get the first 30 days of Dad's chemotherapy, insurance will only approve so much at a time so we have to wait for them to clear the last two-ish weeks of medication before we will be able to pick it up. But now he is ready to start chemo whenever he starts radiation.
The last time we were at the doctors, Dad agreed to participate in a cognitive study and he did the first round today. This involved remembering a long list of words and having to repeat the words back; word association in which he was given a letter and then had to come up with as many words as he could that started with that letter; and dot to dots with just letters, just numbers, and then letters to numbers such as 1-A-2-B-3-C, etc. He'll do these tests again once radiation and chemo start and then again when they're over. The nurse said Dad did really well and Dad's response to that was "Yeah, and then once I leave, you'll laugh about how horrible I did!"
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