Everything seems to flow smoothly. The RevAid program has registered mom, meanting that mom can get Revlimid free. The Project with Dr. Song has finished, and mom was transferred back to Dr. Li who had been taking care of mom since the diagnosis in April 2004. Although mom has her ups and downs, she's doing OK overall.
Dr. Li is a complicated person. It's hard to describe him. He's a Chinese, speaking Catonese, and he's the only Chinese doctor in the hemotology area in Greater Vancouver. It's lucky that mom was referred to him at the very beginning as no languge barrier is a bless for my parents. On April 27, 2004, he told my parents, in Cantonese, without any holding back, without any hesitation, that mom has a blood cancer and that she was in the advanced stage. At that very moment, dad was the only person accompanying mom in the hospital. And I was told by dad when I met him outside the hospital after work. April 27, 2004, a date carved in my heart forever.
Since then, mom has been seeing Dr. Li until about 4 months ago when mom joined the Revlimid Project. Maybe Dr. Li wants to play fair to all of his patients (no special treatment to Chinese). Sometimes he is very rough to deal with. The worst experience with him is that he totally ignored dad and mom when encountering him in the hospital hall way. But sometimes he would suddenly ring the phone and talk to dad that he had been paying extra attention to mom's case. As I always tell my parents, he's a mixed up person, and there is something special (I won't say wrong) about his brain. Otherwise, he wouldn't be the only Chinese hemotologist in Vancouver.
Well, mom will see him at the end of this month. The good news for me is I don't need to go and do the interpretation. They can speak whatever they want! That's the good thing about Dr. Li.