How can I help dad with the neuropathy in his feet?
I am so sorry to hear that your father is having such a hard time. Neuropathy in feet (and sometimes hands) can be very painful. The medications that can help with this pain can be Amitriptyline or Nortriptyline (there are others in the same class of tricyclic antidepressents), Neurontin (gabapentin) or Lyrica (pregabalin) There also are some experimental treatments out there like Calmare pain therapy treatment. This is a machine that a few places are experimenting with with some success. There is no sure evidence at this time that it works and so insurance is not likely to pay for it. Please talk with your father's doctor or a palliative medicine physician for help in treating this pain.
Sadly, I don't have much advice but since I have Stage 1 MM I know what awaits me. I've changed doctors a couple of times since the diagnosis just to find someone who cared. My first doctor who did the diagnosis treated me like I was on a production line with the first biopsy without anything to relieve me of the pain and that's what I thought it was always done. I left the hospital that day devasted, in pain, and alone. When my second annual came up i was already seeing my new doctor and dreading the procedure. He was puzzled and told me that he actually had a patient who went to sleep. He then proceeded to give me a couple of painless shots and I felt only pressure. I didn't know it could be done that way. But the one thing I felt about this doctor was that although he couldn't cure me he would care for me, and about me. There is no caring without proof of caring. It means everything to me to have found such a man.
