Sandi Update

Yesterday was Sandi's appointment with her cancer doctor. I was way too sick to go so she had to go by herself. The news was what we had expected at this point.

Basically, the cancer doctor is in a holding pattern until they get a pathology sample from the thing on her heart. He can't do anything until he knows exactly what he is dealing with. So, in addition to putting her out the next three months on unpaid leave so that she can focus on this, he sent her back to the cardiac surgeon.

Sandi is already scheduled to meet with the cardiac surgeon who did the first procedure the Thursday before Christmas on a followup to what he did. We had been told Sandi had dissolving stitches in her side and chest. According to the office staff, she does not and he will remove them Thursday morning. Whether that will relieve any of the pain she has in her chest and side we don't know.

At this point, we also don't know how he will want to try to get to the thing on her heart. Before Christmas he indicated that the only way would be to put her on the heart/lung bypass machine, stop her heart, and go to work in a very long multi hour procedure. Hopefully, after everything else they put her through after he left for his scheduled vacation, he will have another way of getting what is needed for the sample.

Hopefully she also won't come down with what I have. Everyone around here is now sniffling and coughing so it would seem I have made everyone else sick as well as myself.


Kevin