We just heard from our oncologist here in Toledo that Brody's case was not reviewed by the Tumor Board at Sloan-Kettering yesterday. They said the surgeon (who is one of the main persons needed to review the case) was not able to attend the Tumor board meeting yesterday. They plan to "try" to review his case next week. They said that at this point they have to wait to do surgery anyway because Brody just had chemo on Monday that will cause his blood cell counts to plummet. Brody has to recover from chemo first before surgery could happen. It takes 2 to 3 weeks for his blood cell counts to come back up. We had to start the new chemo regimen because the tumor was not responding to the old one and growing very quickly. We could not wait any longer on the surgeon to review it and there was still high chance the surgeon would say it was inoperable anyway. So we gotta hope and pray that the chemo works this time. If the tumor is responsive to the chemo then it is likely surgery would be delayed and we would continue to shrink the tumor as much as possible first before doing surgery.
Brody has still been spiking fevers also. So far no positive cultures yet in blood or urine. Not sure what the infection source is yet. Could just be a virus of some sort too.
Brody has 2 nephrostomy tubes now. The right side has been draining quite a bit of urine into his nephrostomy bag. The left side is only draining a little bit of urine. An ultrasound he had this morning showed no back-up of fluid around either kidney so the nephrostomy tubes are functioning well and doing their job. The kidney is just not in very good shape at all and not doing much. Right side is still going strong though thanks to the nephrostomy tube.
Brody is feeling ok today. Not a lot of pain. He still has no appetite and is nauseated at times but at least no really bad pain.
Continuing to pray.
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