Friday morning, when Jerry showered, he coughed---not a hard cough, just normal clearing of throat. He felt a pain in his back. As the day progressed, the pain increased and got severe and was not relieved by tylenol nor Tramadol. Saturday morning he could hardly walk because of the pain. I took him to the ER. They did an x-ray and it did not show any thing. The doc just said it must be a pulled muscle an d sent him home. He gave him some hydrocodone, but would not prescribe it. Fortunately, I remembered some left from a recent surgery! The pain is along the lower rib area. The last PET showed some bone mets along the 11th rib and sacral area. I had to go buy a walker to support him when he had to walk.

My question--does bone cancer pain start this suddenly??? I would have thought it would come on gradually. He also has lung mets---and yesterday for the first time there was a lot of wheezing. The doc prescribed an inhaler and told him to take deep breaths!

He has his first immunotherapy on Tuesday.

Any comments appreciated.