Josh had two doctor appointments on Friday. His first appointment was with Dr. Schertz. His second appointment was with Dr. Buck. Since Dr. Buck’s appointment went better I will begin with that. His head is healing well; his hair will start to grow back very slowly. Since the radiation kills the hair at the root …
Category Archives: Dr. Shertz
Finished with radiation and LSAVA
Hi everyone, it’s me again. I just wanted to let my friends and family know that I am now finished with radiation! I finished last week, and even got a neat little certificate of completion from my friends at the radiation center. I go back to both Dr. Shertz and Dr. Buck in the next …
Radiation Effects and Dr. Updates
I figured it was time for an update since everyone has been messaging me asking what the doctors have said. First, I want to apologize on Amanda’s behalf, that she didn’t post an update. She’s been very busy with going to school full time, working full time, taking me back and forth to Roanoke, and …
Back from the dead, round II !
Hey guys! I just wanted to let everyone know that I am at home now, and am doing well. I get really tired quick and easy but I guess that’s expected and my body is just healing. I wanted to give everyone a perspective on things now, from MY point of view. on January 8th, …
Dr. Schertz appointment
Dr. Schertz office visit was Friday, it went well. He basically went over the lab results which we already knew. Josh has an appointment in 2 weeks more more lab work. February 3rd he has another CT of the chest, abdomen, pelvis, and brain we have an office visit a few days after that for …
Todays Results
Today has good a nice day so far. We went out to breakfast and to Sams to get a few essentials. After that we came home and some friends came to finish taking out Joshs remaining sutures..it was only like 1 or 2. Yes, I could have done this but he is such a baby …
Another update
With cancer anytime you get good news and are smiling proudly something comes along and kicks you where it hurts and puts you back at square one. Josh starting being uncoordinated, lightheaded, and dizzy on Monday. We chalked it up to him being tired. On Tuesday he still had the same symptoms so I called …
CT scan results
Dr. Schertz called with the CT scan results…… THE TUMORS ARE SHRINKING!!!!!!!!!! Since Dr. Schertz called Josh I don’t know how much they have shrunk because Josh didn’t ask but at this point I will take any shrinking! This post was posted on Tuesday October 02, 2008 at 1:39PM
We are here
Yesterday started out rough. I woke up sick so my mom called my doctor at home and called me in something that we picked up on the way to the airport. We got to the airport 2 hours early. Thankfully we requested a motorized cart for when we got to Charlotte. Once we got into …
Indiana bound
Surgery yesterday went well. We got to RMH at 7am and immediately talked to the surgeon who said that it would be later in the morning before they were ready for Josh because someone else was going first. About 15 minutes later the anesthesiologist came and got Josh, they were ready for him. I don’t …