On Tuesday we met with Dr Hardenberg, the Radiation Oncologist. She is not recommending further radiation, rather recommends Tony return for surgery as soon as he is healthy enough. Healthy means recovering from the radiation damage to his neck, and also getting protein, weight, energy back so he can endure surgical trauma.
As a last ditch effort and wing-on-a-prayer, we met today with Dr. Strahan who is the ENT locally. He did several needle biopsies which resulted in ZERO fluids, meaning that the mass is not fluid in any form, no infection or an abscess. Who would have thought we'd be praying for a stinky, pussy, infectious fluid to come out. Gross, but NO! It is diagnosed now to be just a mass of cancer. Boooo.....
Tomorrow Tony is scheduled for a CT-Scan at the Shaw Cancer Center, which will again measure the size of the mass. Everyone is recommending we start planning for surgery again as it will take weeks to get on a surgeons schedule, and plus Tony needs reovery time.
So Friday we drive back to Denver to Dr. Imola who did Tony's first surgery, for a consultation.
We are expecting that Tony will undergo surgery again, sometime in early-mid January 2011.
Happy Crappy New Years...
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