Another day, Another doctor

Just got home from seeing Sandi's new Ear, Nose, and Throat guy. Doc did a camera thingy up her nose and was not happy about what he saw in there. Even after he shot some stuff up her nose to open her up, it didn't work very well. What could be seen did not look good. Even my medically untrained eyes saw things that looked to be problems.

Like Texas Oncology, he also wants a CT scan of her sinus cavities and surrounding areas.

If it is just what he thinks it is, he believes he can do an outpatient deal in the office and do some sort of surgical procedure to open her up and also install tubes in her ears.

But, and you knew there had to be a but, there is a more than decent chance that all of this could be caused by some sort of sinus tumor. In other words..... cancer. Exactly what I have worried about for the last two months and did not say a word about to anybody looking at her. Taking into account her history, there is a more than a decent chance she has a damn tumor up in there somewhere.I got the feeling he is pretty sure that is what we are dealing with and just did not want to say so.

We won't know until the CT Scan is done.

As usual, she is handling this way better than I am.

Chemo Done and News

Most importantly--the biopsy results came in early this morning and the tumor is a lymphoma of the subtype she has been fight all along. While the tumor is a new one, it is the same old cancer and not something new and horrendous. They want to have some people double check the results and discuss whether treatment should be changed, but for now things will continue as they have the last several months. This was, considering all the possibilities, the best case scenario.

The current plan is to come back in two weeks for the usual lab check, doctor visit, and IVIG infusion. During that visit  the treatment plan for the next couple of months will be finalized.

Chemo was done today and went fine.

While everything still sucks and the burdens on us are horrendous the news today means things have not gotten even worse. Very thankful for that!

More on Tom Piccirilli

Tom made it through the brain surgery okay, but based on what his wife Michelle wrote on Facebook yesterday, the road ahead is going to be much harder than they anticipated.  Beyond what I already mentioned on here, Brian Keene has additional ways you can help Tom and his family at http://www.briankeene.com/?p=12584

For those on Facebook, Tom's page is at http://www.facebook.com/tompiccirilli?ref=ts&fref=ts

Please help if you can.


Kevin