Thursday, April 16, 2009

We've met the Thoracic Surgeon

We met with the surgeon today. He took a detailed medical history & looked at mom's CT scans. He's tentatively set surg. for 5/15, pending agreement from all others involved.

He said that he would attempt to do surgery w/ a throraciscope, to keep the surgery as simple as possible. But cannot promise that larger incision will not be necessary.

If the quick pathology done right then shows lung cancer the entire lobe will need to be removed. He feels that the likelihood of the tumor being uterine cancer is lower than the chance of lung cancer. But we won't really know until surgery & pathology are complete.

Please pray for peace for us all, as I need to help mom and dad get the rest of their legal affairs in order, shop for burial plots, plan funerals, etc. Of course, once we get all of that done, Mom will live to 105 and we'll get to laugh about how we ran around like crazy doing this 'way back when.' ;-)

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