I know this is repeat information for many of you who received news of dad's diagnosis from Robin, but I wanted to share the condensed version of the past couple weeks. So, this is a portion of an email Robin wrote on Monday the 14th:
About 2 weeks ago, Dan didn't feel very well and we thought he may have the flu. Then he broke out in a strange rash on his face and neck and we thought he was having an allergic reaction to something and hoped it wasn't Amy's dog which we were "dog sitting."
The Doctor tried steroids but the rash kept growing so he sent us to a dermatologist last Monday who did some tests. The dermatologist called Wednesday afternoon 2/9 and told us the blood tests were extremely concerning and to get to a Doctor immediately.
We went to the Dublin Hospital ER (Dan was very weak by this point - we still thought he had a terrible flu but they had to come help him from the car). Dublin ran tests and the Doctor came in and said, "Based on these results, it looks like Acute Leukemia which we are not equipped to handle so we've called an ambulance and made arrangements for you to go to Riverside."
We arrived around midnight at Riverside where the oncology/hematology doctors confirmed the diagnosis and have made arrangements for us to transfer to the James Cancer Hospital at OSU.
So we were in 3 hospitals in 24 hours and reeling from the news.
Dan has Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) and they plan to start extremely aggressive chemotherapy (hoped to start it today, but he's experiencing some heart arrhythmia so hoping to get that stabilized so he can start tomorrow). He will be here for at least 6 weeks for this first round of chemo.
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