May 3, 2009
Dave is having some more surgery tomorrow (Monday May 4th) and has several appts over the next two weeks. We are anxious to get his treatment for the cancer started. Because the drug creates a situation where healing is a huge issue, we have now been waiting almost 7 weeks and still no start date has been set. Everytime something crops up that needs to be addressed surgically, it pushes his actual cancer treatment out a little farther, which is very distressing. Tomorrow he is having a malignant lymph node removed from his face and it should be an easy surgery, unless that facial nerves are involved, which is a possibility. This tumor has grown visibly over the last few weeks, which is distrubing but hopefully its removal will be quick and easy. AFter this, he sees a neurologist and brain specialist next week and has another MRI to see about that tumor. He has to heal up some from tomorrow's procedure before they can consider the brain tumor. We are ready for some action on the other tumors.
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
