Beginning Round 4

All plugged in as session 4 of 4 begins. Today was a rough start. A tree fell over next door, hit the power lines and snapped two power poles including the one directly in front of our house. Big bang, power out, cold house...and we couldn't leave. The power lines were draped across the front of our driveway, more lines across the road on one side, a large tree across the road on the other side. Ominous start to the week.  

I was looking for an excuse to skip chemo, and I think this was it.  However, we called in the favor with Andrew and were on our way to the hospital. 

So, late start, late finish, probably almost till 5pm. Wheeeee.

This week will be a big week.  From what we know, we'll get a much more clear picture on whether surgery is going to happen. Tumor markers should be back on Weds. If they're not normal (i.e. 0), I'll go for an "immediate" CT scan to check the size of the lymph nodes. Then we'd get to planning on the surgery, which could come a lot more quickly than we'd thought...and maybe more quickly than we'd hoped. If it comes to that, we'll have to see where we'll schedule it (maybe Indiana?)...so have the fun of working through insurance, timing, travel, etc.  Given my stellar timing so far (surgery on my birthday), I'm sure it'll get scheduled for the 24th or 26th, while we're planning to have everyone in town. 

Until then, we'll just keep praying that there's no surgery in our future and we get to go the surveillance route and sidestep the surgical option. However, whatever happens, happens...we'll just roll with the punches.