We went and saw the surgeon today.
The big news is that i) they did indeed get the tumor and got clean margins; and ii) that the final pathology on the lymph node confirms the day-of-surgery pathology: no lymphatic spread. Both bits of very good news. We also learned that the tumor was creeping up on 2cm which puts it at stage two. (Overall: 2 x 1.5 x .5) Our initial understanding was that it was smaller, but so it goes. The first two points are the most important apparently and they go in our favor.
They also took care of the blisters DKO has been having near the incision. They think it's some kind of chemical burn from one of the preps before surgery. We got some lotions for that.
We also got some insight perhaps into why DKO had so much muscle soreness. It sounds like they took out quite a big "chunk" to make sure they got the margins and that the lymph node they pulled out was pretty deep.
We have to go back to the surgeon next week and then the chemo doctor the week after.
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7 comments:
GREAT NEWS. I'm so happy
Awesome. Love you - sounds like coffee bus is in order!
This is some really great news!! Mike, thanks so much for doing such a terrific job as a KISA and giving us all the news.
WONDERFUL news that the nasty stage 2 was stopped in its dasterdly tracks! Diane, dig into the chocolate!
Wow, I breathed such a sigh of relief at reading this very good news. Yay! And I second the chocolate idea!
yippee! clean margins is the BEST! except for the lymph which is the BETTER best. hooray, hooray. :) hh
Been waiting for this news--can finally breathe! Great that they got it all, even a little bit more it sounds, at first surgery! So now the chemo Doc decides how/what happens next? Of course we're just hoping it won't be much more for Diane to bear--and just enough to allow her to vacate with family...soon!
Eve, Eddie & Samantha
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