Surgery to remove a lymph gland is on our schedule for today (it is 2am as I am typing this). It is one day surgery but it will take that whole one day. Thank goodness it is supposed to rain, so we won't feel like we are getting no work done at the Farm.
Dave is having that surgery today (Monday May 4th). After this procedure, we wait 2 weeks and go back for another series of MRI/Scans to see if there is any change with the mets, especially the brain met. That is the one that bears watching now, so we will have our fingers crossed that there has been no change. No change is good. That means we might not have to do the Cyberknife procedure and Dave can start his drug therapy. So far, we have done nothing in the way of actual cancer treatment, other than to cut and paste stuff. Very frustrating, I tell you. We are now 3 months into diagnosis, with mets growing larger and still not treating anything
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.
Say a prayer for us.
