Dr. Stockman (pediatric surgeon) ended up meeting with Brody's oncologist this week. When we had met with Dr. Stockman he definitely was not leaning towards doing surgery just yet. But now after discussing Brody's case further with our oncologist he does now feel that surgery is the best option for Brody. The chemo does not appear to be keeping the tumor from growing (I can see it and feel it getting a little bigger). The hope is that with surgery to "debulk" the tumor, it will be much smaller and the chemo will be more effective/be able to reach all of the tumor to kill it better. We are, of course, very worried about all the things that could go wrong during the surgery. It sounds like it will be an extremely, majorly aggressive surgery. The surgery will be on Feb 28th. He will have a more minor surgery to place stents in both the right and left urterers a few days before his major surgery. These are mainly to help the surgeon better feel and protect Brody's urterers during the debulking surgery. Our oncologist does not want Brody to get the internal stents earlier because he is afraid Brody might find them to be "uncomfortable. " I am really pretty bummed about that. I was excited at the thought of Brody being able to get in the water again soon. So was Brody.
Brody's 7th birthday is coming up on March 3rd. It is likely Brody will still be in the hospital recovering from his big surgery on his birthday so we are thinking of probably celebrating early before he has the surgery. Not sure what we will do yet for his birthday celebration. We will let Brody make that decision. Hard to believe he is going to be seven years old soon. He's my youngest, my baby. Time goes by so fast!
Well, it's very late so I had better get some sleep. Keep praying, wishing, crossing fingers, toes and whatever else you can think of for us.
Finger, toes and eyes crossed.
ReplyDeletePositive thoughts and Prayers for everything.
And a super fast recovery.