Well its time for another monthly update. I have been slow to update this month because I am contemplating a serious matter for myself and for all my family. It seems the latest 2 rounds of chemo are helping other tumors in my body, but I have one golf ball size tumor in my liver that won't play along. This one tumor seems to be chemo resistant and keeps growing. According to my doctors I am hitting the cancer with the best one two punch that I could and my next arsenals are not as strong or I may have to do a trial that won't guarantee anything either.
For these reasons, I will be heading into liver surgery on May 23. They will attempt to remove 20-33% percent of my liver and re-sect it back together. I will need 5-10 days in the hospital and another 8 weeks of recovery time to let my liver heal and grow about 50% of the amount taken back. I am on my last batch of chemo now and won't start again until after 8 weeks of recovery. The cancer may grow and go nuts while off the chemo, but I will have to deal with that then. Now is the best chance of surgical success and surviving the procedure.
Well that's the details, I hope you will keep me in your thoughts for a bit more.
Thanks for reading and caring,
Jeff
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