Wednesday was a day of trying to stop the pain and also to stop the nausea and allow Marshall to eat solid foods again. And in the afternoon we got the results of the lab tests showing that his PSA has risen to 12.3, kind of depressing. We were hoping so much that it would have gone down after being on the Casodex for these past few months. That news put Marshall in the dumps for the rest of the day.
We contacted the oncologist and he made an appointment for Marshall to come and see him on January 17th to "regroup" and see what the best treatment option is now. In the meantime, we wait and see if the radiation treatment brings relief of the back pain.
Today I got to the hospital around noon and Marshall had been unhooked from the monitors and the IV and they were just seeing if he did well enough on his own to come home. We took a "vigorous" 2-minute stroll around the nurse's station and ordered lunch.
The hospitalist visited in the afternoon and said Marshall could go home but that he had a low white blood cell count and he wanted to have that checked out again. We will call our primary care physician to get blood work done on Monday to check the white blood cell count. The hospitalist also wants Marshall to be on a daily regimen of morphine and laxatives. When we call Dr. Bliss about all of this tomorrow we will make an appointment to go over it all with him as well.
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