Yesterday didn’t go the way we expected. My dad, his sister Mary, and I traveled to Iowa City ready for his first round of chemo and immunotherapy.

We had our first oncology appointment today with Dr. Kroll and Dr. Maciel at the University of Iowa, and it gave us a much clearer picture of what Dad is facing and what comes next.

For anyone who might be new to what’s been going on, this all started with a few hospital visits and tests over the past couple of months as we tried to figure out what was causing some of Dad’s symptoms.