A Team of Doctors

Mom has a complete team of doctors working on her case everyday.

Dr. Perez, her lead doctor; Dr. McGee, the specialist (an oncologist); and the staff oncologist meet every day to discuss her treatment, responses and daily plan of attack.

Outside of those three, she also sees a staff psychologist that focuses on developing and maintaining a healthy and "fighting shape" psyche.

In addition to the three doctors focused on the oncology and the psychologist, she sees a nutritionist that works to incorporate nutrition and detoxification into the total plan of wellness. Dad said that the nutritionist often makes them drink smoothies made of wheat grass or an all green vegetable smoothy. He said he can't stand the wheat grass, but he promises to try and get the whole thing down soon. Haha! I'd love to see his face drinking that stuff. I bet he'd rather eat a divot. Mom's not complaining, but I was thinking that dad probably looks like Caleb when I try and make him drink medicine before bed.

On top of all of that, they have Dr. Lanzagorta, Director of Medical Outreach, who teaches a class on "Having a Daily Devotional" that was an elective for the patients at the Medical Center. Dad told me that he is very clearly a believer and that his daily devotional was a 1.2.3. on having a quiet time. Dad said that he referenced Jesus, the Bible, etc. over and over and only referenced other religions sparingly, yet respectfully. He talked of it being worthless to eat right, get the proper treatments and "not be plugged into a life giving force," thus the focus on spiritual growth. He said that "a God that had the power to come to Earth, die for us and then rise again after three days, certainly has the power to give life and healing power."

Mom was scheduled for what is called a "Colonic" treatment today. I'll spare you, but suffice to say it helps clean you out and do some major detoxification. As a reward, they were giving her a manicure too! Not at the same time, of course... That would be weird. Melissa said to tell you guys that celebrities are now paying between $2,000 and $5,000 for this procedure to lose 10 lbs. "just like that." Yikes. Anyway, both of these were postponed due to some other things taking longer than usual.

She did get I.V.'s of nutrients and that continues to help her feel better day by day.