People have kept asking me for updates, but there wasn't anything to tell. Well we finally have a little news and I am so excited to share it. Thanks for Linda and David Vitullo who got us in with Dr. Joseph Barrera, the Endocrinologist. Actually so many of you sent the names of your doctors, but most all the doctors we called were booked out months or weren't taking new patients. Background: So months ago Dr. Carroll, our amazing Oncologist, ordered a lot of labs and the only the lab that came back funny in that batch was his FSH. It was crazy high - 400%. This meant his body was telling the body to make more testosterone but it wasn't working. Dr. Carroll said that was not his speciality and we should see an Endocrinologist. I was anxious to get it checked out since we were told that his immunotherapy treatment would have a lot of life-long side effects AND most of his radiation was near his pituitary gland. Remember that his cancer was called Neuroendocrine car
Week of April 19th: First ever post-cancer ride. One of the benefits for me that he is now more at my speed. You gotta love that. Brace actually did 4 bike trail rides this week (not mountain biking). We park at Aliso Creek church and then ride to Saddleback Church. Brace told me of good biking memories with Jeff Goodall and Brandon Swaner. Hospital Excitement: On April 25th and 26th, Brace just felt really weak. On Sunday he just felt awful. In about a 2-hour period he passed out 3 times. The 3rd time he passed out he lost consciousness. I dialed 911 when he lost consciousness, but he came back to life before I finished the call. It seemed to only be happening 10-15 seconds after getting up from a chair. Robyn Robinson, bless her heart, came over to see how the patient was doing. She was worried that he might have some heart problems so off to the hospital we went at 7:30pm. We were pretty worried about Covid at the hospital but there were only 4 people in the waiti