Dr. Mazi was sent from God

One of our many angels arrived at our home tonight! He did not have wings or a glowing aura but he had a white lab coat and an MD in Internal Medicine!

So, we are in bed and having a pizza picnic with the boys when our doorbell rings. To my surprise it is Dr. Maziar Zamani. He is the son of our next door neighbor. His Mom has asked him to come over and see us because she is so caring.

Dr. Mazi is the doctor we all wish we had. For heavens sakes - he makes house calls! The entire time he was here - almost 2 hours - he answered his pager and personally spoke with every patient who beckoned his call. Loving Mazi!

So, there are so many things he went over with us it would be difficult for me to communicate everything with you.
I will give you the key parts of our conversation:

1. Without even knowing Gary he looked across the room (which was not very bright) to tell Gary that he was very anemic. We have known that all along and the doctors have told us not to worry about it. What the Heck???? He has got to be losing blood from somewhere!
2. Without knowing Gary he can also tell that he is very depressed. Hallelujah!
3. He thinks we have not had the best of people caring for us. Gee, you think?
4. He thinks Gary's pain might possibly be things other than cancer like fibromyalgia, severe inflammation and many other things. oh, the possible possibilities.

He looked over every lab and every piece of information we have from UCI and spent so much time caring for Gary.

Bottom Line:
Gary will go to Saddleback Hospital at 8 AM tomorrow morning to have the following blood tests run:
ESR
CBC w/ differential
CMP
PreAbl
Iron, TiBC, Ferritin
Biz
Folate

He will have the results by Friday afternoon to go over things with us. WOW imagine a doc who orders tests and gets them back 24 hours later!

He is concerned that our doctors - if they truly suspect that Gary has metastic disease - have moved very slowly and have not given him the pain meds he has really needed to control his pain. He is on what the medical community considers "light weight" meds - meds you would not use to sedate a person suffering from metastic disease. No wonder the poor guy has been suffering!

So, we will figure all of this out and get to the bottom of what it is and what we can do to help Gary.
Cancer or not we are finally moving in the right direction in finding out what is going on inside Gary's body. It is much better knowing we will get answers.

BTW - Our boys ate an entire large pizza tonight! They all must be growing and will soon eat us out of house and home!

KEEP PRAYING FOR US! Every second of your prayers are so appreciated and needed!

I am taking Zach and Nate out of school tomorrow to take them to Disneyland for the day! They are so excited!
Next week I will take just Jax so that he and I can enjoy all of his favorite rides without forcing him to go on "the rides he hates"!

Sweet Dreams,
Lisa