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Elliot Landry Medical Care Team and Medications

Elliot Landry's medical care team was assembled beginning at age twenty-nine, when Jacob Keller hired him and Elliot gained access to consistent, quality healthcare for the first time in his adult life. Prior to this, Elliot had received minimal medical oversight since his late teens, with years of poverty, geographic isolation in rural Alabama, and medical trauma resulting in his complete withdrawal from the healthcare system. Logan Weston was instrumental in rebuilding Elliot's trust in medical professionals and helping him navigate appointments, specialist referrals, and the medical language that had historically been wielded over him rather than shared with him.

The majority of Elliot's care is coordinated through Mount Sinai Health System, whose Pituitary Care and Research Center serves as the anchor for his endocrine management. Mount Sinai's multidisciplinary structure—with integrated cardiology, rheumatology, pain management, and sleep medicine under one institutional umbrella—provides the cross-specialty coordination that a patient with Elliot's complexity requires. Having his specialists within the same system means shared records, coordinated prescribing, and the ability for his cardiologist and pain management doctor to actually talk to each other about the cardiovascular implications of his NSAID regimen without Elliot having to carry the message between them.

Care Team

Dr. Adebayo — Pain Management (Mount Sinai)

Dr. Adebayo became Elliot's pain management specialist through Mount Sinai after Jake facilitated access to quality care. She was the first doctor to look at Elliot's imaging—the knees, the hips, the spine—and sit with what she saw before speaking. Her assessment was direct: "Elliot, the joint deterioration in your knees is what I'd expect to see in a seventy-year-old with severe osteoarthritis. You're twenty-nine." She prescribed his multimodal pain regimen, including the breakthrough opioid medication, and told him to take it when he needed it and not to wait until the pain was unbearable, because by that point the medication had to fight through the inflammation to work and required higher doses with more side effects.

She and Elliot have the same conversation at every appointment—she tells him not to ration the pain medication, he nods and says "yes ma'am," and they both know he's going to ration it anyway. Dr. Adebayo understands the layers behind the rationing: the medical trauma, the pharmacy encounters, the fear of dependency, the need to stay alert for Jake and Clara. She doesn't push past his boundaries, but she documents them, and she adjusts the regimen to account for the reality that Elliot will use less than prescribed.

Cardiologist (Name TBD) — Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital

Monitors Elliot's cardiomegaly (mild heart enlargement), elevated resting heart rate, and overall cardiovascular risk—his primary mortality concern. Likely prescribes beta blockers for heart rate management. Coordinates with other specialists within the Mount Sinai system to ensure pain medications and other prescriptions don't compound cardiac risk. Regular monitoring includes echocardiograms and cardiac stress assessments adapted for Elliot's mobility limitations.

Endocrinologist (Name TBD) — Mount Sinai Pituitary Care and Research Center

Manages the ongoing hormonal aspects of Elliot's gigantism through Mount Sinai's Pituitary Care and Research Center—one of the leading pituitary specialty programs in the country, with a multidisciplinary team spanning neurosurgery, endocrinology, neuroradiology, and neuro-ophthalmology. Monitors GH and IGF-1 levels, adjusts somatostatin analogues or pegvisomant as needed, and tracks metabolic indicators including insulin resistance and diabetes risk. The endocrinologist represents the longest-standing specialty need, dating back to Elliot's initial diagnosis at fifteen, though continuous care was interrupted for over a decade by poverty and access barriers. The Pituitary Center also coordinates Elliot's research participation in gigantism studies.

Rheumatologist (Name TBD) — Mount Sinai Rheumatology

Manages Elliot's progressive joint arthropathy—the GH-driven cartilage and bone changes affecting his knees (worst), hips, spine, and increasingly his hands—through Mount Sinai's rheumatology department. Monitors joint deterioration, adjusts anti-inflammatory protocols, and assesses when surgical intervention (joint replacement) may become necessary. The rheumatologist works closely with Dr. Adebayo on the pain management approach, particularly the interaction between inflammatory pain and neuropathic pain. As joint replacement becomes a more immediate prospect for Elliot's knees, the rheumatologist coordinates with Mount Sinai's orthopedic surgery team.

Neurologist / Sleep Medicine (Name TBD) — Mount Sinai Sleep Disorders Program

Manages Elliot's peripheral neuropathy (progressive numbness and tingling in hands and feet) and his obstructive sleep apnea through Mount Sinai's integrated neurology and sleep medicine services. Prescribes and monitors the CPAP settings, tracks nerve conduction over time, and manages the gabapentin component of his pain regimen. The neuropathy and the sleep apnea are both direct consequences of the gigantism, and both are progressive. Mount Sinai's sleep medicine program coordinates with his cardiologist on the cardiovascular implications of his OSA, ensuring the CPAP settings are optimized for both airway patency and cardiac workload.

Logan Weston — Unofficial Medical Advocate

Not a member of Elliot's formal care team but functionally essential to it. Logan attends new appointments with Elliot when he's in town, translates medical terminology into language Elliot can work with, and reviews recorded appointments when he can't be present in person. Elliot texts Logan before appointments and either records the full visit to send afterward or has Logan on speakerphone during the appointment. Logan's presence—even as a voice on a phone—changes how Elliot is treated in medical settings. Logan firmly redirects any researcher or specialist who attempts to go through him rather than directly to Elliot regarding study participation or care decisions.

Medication Regimen

Baseline / Daily Medications

  • NSAIDs (with gastric protection) — daily anti-inflammatory for chronic joint pain. Gastric protection (likely a proton pump inhibitor) required due to GERD and the risk of GI bleeding from long-term NSAID use.
  • Gabapentin — for the neuropathic pain component (tingling, burning, numbness in hands and feet). Dosed for pain management rather than seizure control.
  • Beta blocker (likely) — for elevated resting heart rate related to cardiomegaly. Helps manage the cardiac workload.
  • Somatostatin analogue or pegvisomant — ongoing GH/IGF-1 suppression to slow the progression of gigantism-related complications. Somatostatin analogues are typically administered as monthly injections; pegvisomant is a more frequent injection (daily to weekly depending on protocol).
  • Proton pump inhibitor — GERD management, also provides gastric protection for the NSAID regimen.

Breakthrough / As-Needed Medications

  • Opioid (likely hydrocodone or oxycodone) — prescribed for severe pain episodes, particularly after extended standing, weather-related flares (barometric pressure drops), or physical strain. Prescribed by Dr. Adebayo with clear instructions to take with food—without food, Elliot vomits the medication within fifteen minutes. The last time he took them on an empty stomach, he ended up on the bathroom floor with his heart rate at 130 and Jake calling Logan at four in the morning. He uses these sparingly due to: (1) opioids dulling his alertness, which his hypervigilant nervous system resists; (2) the food requirement; (3) respiratory depression risks interacting with his sleep apnea and cardiomegaly; and (4) the racial dynamics of being a Black man navigating pharmacy encounters with a controlled substance prescription.

Medication Interactions and Concerns

Elliot's medication regimen requires careful coordination across specialists because multiple prescriptions interact with each other and with his underlying conditions:

  • Opioids carry respiratory depression risk that compounds his sleep apnea—his doctors have discussed this with him, and it's one reason the CPAP is non-negotiable on nights he takes the stronger pain medication.
  • NSAIDs carry cardiovascular risk that must be balanced against his cardiomegaly—the cardiologist and Dr. Adebayo coordinate on this.
  • Gabapentin can cause drowsiness and dizziness, which adds to fall risk for a man whose joints are already unstable.
  • Beta blockers interact with the fatigue that is already architectural in his body—managing heart rate at the cost of additional energy depletion.
  • The somatostatin analogue/pegvisomant requires ongoing endocrine monitoring to ensure GH/IGF-1 suppression is adequate without overcorrecting into GH deficiency.

Pharmacy Dynamics

Elliot fills his prescriptions at the same pharmacy every time. He never asks for early refills. He rations the opioid prescription so consistently that he always has pills remaining when the refill date arrives. And he still feels the look every time—the hesitation, the extra questions, the way the pharmacist counts the pills. Being a Black man from Jasper, Alabama, with a controlled substance prescription carries a weight that the prescription itself doesn't account for, and it shapes how and when Elliot takes his medication in ways his doctors can document but cannot fully solve.

Appointment Logistics

Elliot records all medical appointments on his phone and sends the audio to Logan Weston afterward. This practice began because Elliot couldn't write fast enough to capture what doctors were saying, and because having a recording meant Logan could review the information and explain it in language Elliot could work with. The recordings also function as accountability—doctors know the visit is being recorded, and Logan is listening. When Logan is available during an appointment, Elliot has him on speakerphone so Logan can hear in real time and ask follow-up questions that Elliot might not know to ask.

This system emerged from necessity—a man who had been failed by the medical system learning to build guardrails around his own care—and it works. Elliot's engagement with his health has improved significantly since implementing it, and his care team has adapted to the presence of recordings and Logan's occasional remote participation.

Research Participation

Due to the extreme rarity of pituitary gigantism (approximately 8 cases per million, with only a few hundred documented cases in the entire medical literature), researchers actively seek Elliot's participation in longitudinal studies and case reports. All research requests go through Elliot directly—Logan redirects any that come through him. Elliot refused all research participation in his twenties when he was too unstable to tolerate additional medical contact. After gaining stability through Jake's employment and building a care team he trusted, he agreed to participate, motivated by the quiet hope that his data might help other patients with the same condition.

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