{"id":112,"date":"2020-12-20T18:14:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T02:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dkbnet.net\/?p=112"},"modified":"2020-12-20T18:18:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T02:18:01","slug":"112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dkbnet.net\/index.php\/2020\/12\/20\/112\/","title":{"rendered":"So Far So Good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Drs. Eulau and Lily will be collaborating to implant the radioactive &#8220;seeds&#8221; in Dave&#8217;s prostate on 1\/28. Dave will also be starting on the drug Flomax on 1\/26 to counter the expected prostate enlargement from radiation treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We saw Dr. Patel and Heidi on 12\/14. LDH and body weight continue to drop as expected, and Dave remains mildly anemic, but everything else is stable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dave got his port out on 12\/16. There is evidently no need for regular blood draws during radiation treatments, and medication to ameliorate side effects (e.g. Zofran for nausea) can be given orally, if needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Androgen deprivation therapy (Lupron) will continue at monthly intervals through April, so as to overlap radiation treatment. Next dose is due 12\/30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drs. Eulau and Lily will be collaborating to implant the radioactive &#8220;seeds&#8221; in Dave&#8217;s prostate on 1\/28. Dave will also be starting on the drug Flomax on 1\/26 to counter the expected prostate enlargement from radiation treatment. We saw Dr. Patel and Heidi on 12\/14. LDH and body weight continue to drop as expected, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dkbnet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dkbnet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dkbnet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dkbnet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dkbnet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dkbnet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dkbnet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dkbnet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dkbnet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dkbnet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}