Making Progress!!!

Dad seems to be making progress in physical therapy! A week or so ago he got a brace for the left ankle to keep his left foot from dragging when he walks. It seems to be helping a lot, he walks much better with it. He's been able to start putting weight on his left leg when he walks, which he wasn't able to do before. Dad also feels like his shoulder is getting stronger, in therapy they've been doing exercises with him on all fours and he's a lot more stable and his able to raise his right hand five times, putting all the weight on his left hand. The physical therapist is thinking that the swelling must be going down since he's making such great improvements.

The Avastin seems to be helping, Dad hasn't showed any symptoms or reactions since starting and with the improvements in therapy, hopefully he continues to improve.

We were able to get a family picture with Mom's side of the family over Easter weekend, think our last family picture was when I was in high school!!

No Clinical Trials For Now....

We found out that the new clinical trial with the VB-111 will not accept Dad into the trial at this time. They want him off the Disulfram from the last trial for at least four weeks and by the time those four weeks will have passed, the trial will have closed. They are going to give him the standard of care medicine, Avastin, as soon as they can in order to attempt to control the swelling. It will still be administered via IV however he should be able to get it at Siteman in St. Peters instead of driving to Big Barnes.

So far he's been doing really well on the increased steroids, his mobility is better and was able to get into Mom's car without any assistance. He's also eating right now, more than he's eaten in a while... I took donuts over there for breakfast the other day and he ate two whole turnovers with a glass of milk. We also celebrated his retirement, he's now officially a RETIREE!!!!