Results & The Next Step

My Dad's oncologist is awesome! He had told my parents this morning that he would try to get some "unofficial" preliminary reports from the pathologist at a lunch conference that they had today.. and he came through! He said that we will still get "official" reports on the findings, but that he wanted us to know as soon as possible, since he knows we've been waiting and waiting, and waiting...

SO... just a side note that I am human and that means my understanding of some items are a little bit off, since sometimes doctors use medical terminology that I don't understand! I will describe things the way that I understand them, and hopefully that will be good enough for all of you. :)

Here is the summary:
-When he had the surgery on the colon blockage, they took the opportunity to completely remove the section of colon that had the mass. They still took tissue samples of it, along with the lesions on the liver.
-The onocologist said that the biopsy revealed that the cancer originated in the colon, and matastasized (spread) to the liver.
-Since the colon mass has been removed, the focus now is to attack the liver lesions so that they will not spread more.
-Dr. was very optomistic that Dad can probably be out of the hospital by Friday!
-We will need to wait until Dad is fully recovered from surgery until they start chemotherapy. The Dr estimated this would be in like 3 weeks.
-Dr. also said that the cancerous cells do not look aggressive, and that he is very confident that chemo will take care of killing them.

So, all in all... it is news we were prepared for, and we are ready for Dad to heal quickly so that we can attack the cancer on the liver! We all feel a little better now.. since we know what we are up against, and know what the plan is. The waiting seemed to be the worst part of it all. We have faith that God has already started to work on my Dad, healing him and giving him (& us, for that matter) the strength to get through this.

Dad has been walking a good amount, trying to get things moving in his body, and trying to only use the pain medication button when absolutely needed - all things that are necessary to getting him home quicker!

Keep praying, because it's obvious that God is hearing & answering your prayers! :)

We love you all so much, thank you-
Holly