Blood Transfusion

It's been an interesting week...

Last Friday Dennis commented his chest was tight, and in his words "feels like vise grips". The nurse Onc told him to stop the Afinitor until she saw him on Monday. Her first comment, "you look really pale". The blood work showed Dennis' hemoglobin was 5.4, normal is 12. Tuesday he went in for a blood transfusion. He returned on Thursday and his hemoglobin was at 7.7. The nurse said 8 is the deciding factor, so he had another transfusion.

Dennis also had a MRI on Thursday to take a closer look at his spine. Unfortunately, he was unable to complete the contrast part of the MRI, but after the nurse took a quick look at the report she believes he was scanned long enough for the information they need. He has a CT scan on 4/19, so I'm pretty sure we will get the MRI results during his visit on 4/22.

I hate to assume, but with Dennis' increased pain, and a few other issues, I'm not too sure the Afinitor is working. Usually when I assume, I'm wrong. I hope this is the case.