August 4, 2011

• Thats no tumor…ITS A SPACE STATION!!!!…..er….pseudoaneurysm…

  Posted by Sammy

  1230 pm from MD Anderson

   

  Well that was unexpected….ly AWESOME!!! Follow me if you will. So there was a sarcoma filled lymph node. Kind of like a jelly donut from hell. Not especially fond of this situation we blasted it with a few dozen gallons of chemo. And it shrunk. A lot. Like the dudes head in Beetlejuice.

  
  

  Moving on. Suddenly it started to grow. Kind of quick. Ruh-roh. That’s no good. So the plan became “lets cut it out.” We were worried, assuming that we had a growing, chemo resistant super cancer on our hands.

   

  Funny thing those CT scans. They show you a picture but don’t tell you exactly what it is. Turns out that it might look like a tumor, grow like a tumor and look like one on a scan but what we actually were looking at was something called a pseudoaneurysm. Basically the chemo did so much damage to the tumor and, thus the lymph node that not only did it shrink but it went all Wicked Witch of the West on us.

   

  So….what happens now? Well we wait for Steph to recover, do some pathology on the tissue and eventually take out the lung nodule which for a guy like Dr. Swisher rates about like the kid who got picked last for kick ball. We’ll deal with him soon enough. So today was about as good as it could have gone. We may not even have to do radiation! We’ll see what the path report says but all is well for now. Thank you so much for all the prayers and positive thoughts! I know it means a lot to me and really helps Steph through all of this!

   

  More soon.

  Sammy

  • 1:59 pm
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