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Hi everyone,
A quick update as it has been a bit of a whirlwind month. We’ve had mostly good news so far!My FIL has been seen by some excellent specialists at MDA. Dr. Schoff is is main medical oncologist and Dr. Aloia is heading his surgery team. He’s been tentatively staged at 2. A MRI and lymph node biopsy show 0 signs that the cancer has spread, and we found out yesterday that he is a good candidate for a liver resection! He’s having a portal vein embolism sometime in the next 2 weeks to kill the side of the liver with the tumor and encourage the other side to grow. 2-6 weeks after that procedure he’ll have the liver resection. They’re looking at sometime late September for the surgery. He’ll likely need chemo following the surgery, just to eliminate any traces of cancer that may remain, but overall his prognosis is fairly good.
We’ve been blessed to have him able to stay at my parents’ second home in Houston and have had some angels on earth who helped get him seen quickly at MDA and have provided support and perspective on this journey.
We’re as hopeful as we dare to be with this diagnosis.
Thank you for all of your support and continued prayers,
SarahOh and for now he’s trying to just enjoy time with family and gain as much weight as he can before he begins treatment.
Update: the first biopsy didn’t gather enough tissue for a diagnosis. He had a second biopsy and stent placement on Friday that was successful. We’ll get a definitive diagnosis in a few days.
He’s been lucky to be able to get into MD Anderson fairly quickly. Some family friends who have been treated there have been kind enough to put calls into their physicians and it looks like he should be in Houston sometime next week.
Thank you all for your encouragement and advice,
SarahThank you! He’s 65 and otherwise in mostly good health (mild high blood pressure and asthma but a very healthy diet and quite active). We’ll know more later this week or next week but are trying to get information for them to go into the first few appointments with.
Also I’m Sarah! Hi!
My husband and I are both 27. We have a 14 month old who is the light of our lives. We’re both working (him full time, me part time) and graduate students (me full time, him part time). We’ve been together nearly 13 years (yes really) and known each other our whole lives. My in laws are truly like a second set of parents to me, and I could not love them more. I want to do anything and everything I can do to help them through this process.
