Huntsman Cancer Institute

Today was our big day. We left at 8:00am to arrive at the Huntsman by 9:30. We were met by our case manager who escorted us to Clinic C where we were to meet our doctors and nurses for the next six months. We were told that the treatment Trent recieved in Nebraska was good and they were going to carry on with something similar. They are going to add a new drug to the chemotherapy. Great, except that this drug has a tendency to cause heart damage. So they sent Trent to McKay Dee Hospital to get an echo cardiogram to measure how strong his heart is so they know how hard and how far they can push this drug. They expect Trent to do two or maybe three more cycles of chemotherapy and then have another CT scan to assess the progress. Then they will do surgery followed by radiation or chemotherapy or both. I anticipate that will take until about November.

So Trent is scheduled to begin round two on Wednesday. He is not super strong yet so they will most likely start him immediately on antibiotics to prevent infection in his hip. They will also give him blood at the same time as the chemo because his hemoglobin has not rebounded like it should.

Trent tried to be a tough guy and walk all through the hospital so by the time we left he was exhausted. I had to lay down the law...wheelchairs from here on out. Surprisingly he did not refuse. As soon as we got home he was out for about three hours. He got up for about 30 minutes and was out for a couple more hours. I guess it was a pretty big day for him. Tomorrow will be spent preparing for the week long hospital stay and beefing up on the protein as much as we can. Thank goodness my mom is practically a nutritionist!

We feel like today was pretty positive and we are glad to be receiving care at the Huntsman. Thank you all for all your love and support. Team Trent is going to win!