We saw the oncologist yesterday. He feels that the severe pain and wheezing are both from the cancer advancing. He prescribed pain medication for 30 days---when I went to get it, the pharmacy said that since it was a new prescription, that insurance would only allow 7 days!!!!!!!!! Now, I have to call the doc and him call it in again in a week--a lot of extra hassle and paperwork for him since it it a controlled drug. Jerry had his first Keytruda infusion yesterday with no reaction. This doc still presents what I feel is an unrealistic picture of the infusion. He insists that people don't have any reaction to Keytruda and that the cancer will be reversed. Jerry just said that the medication helps but does not completely take away the pain. This doc has never examined him in any way--just sits several feet away and talks. Jerry thinks he should have some sort of physical examine--I explained that "if" (and we feel sure it is) the pain is the cancer that the pain will not be going away.

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