The latest news....

Bob, Abby & I met with Dr Pugmire on Thursday.  After much discussion, I will be having surgery on Aug 7th.  He told us that the cancer doubles in size every 30-50 days and felt that it should be done sooner than later.  However, he did give me the option of not having surgery, of just treating it with chemotherapy.  Of course that's not what I want to do, but at least he gave me a choice, something Dr Fata never did.  He feels that he can get it all by doing it with the robot thru the abdomen and hopes to be able to just take out the piece of cancer.  If not, he'll do a resection, which will involve me having to have a temporary colostomy, but the chances he gave us was 5% of that happening. I will be in the hospital for 2-3 days.  He will send the tissue to a lab in California and they will determine what type of chemo will work the best, since I've been screwed up with chemo over the past years.  He assures me I will only have to have 6 treatments, but doesn't know if that means once a week, twice a week, once a month etc...  I did ask if he thought I'd lose my hair and he said he didn't know, it will depend on the chemo.  So,,,,,,even thou I'd hoped to have this done after the wedding, I'm feeling ok about getting it out of the way now and moving forward.   I'm extremely confident in Dr. Pugmire and am so glad that I changed Dr.s  I feel he is doing what is right for me and in the end it will be ok.
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