A Plan??

I had a CT scan this morning right before my appointment with the thoracic surgeon. The CT was very easy. The great news is that there is not any fluid in my chest right now. Bad news, the tumor is bigger than we thought. With the fluid gone we can now see the entire tumor and it's a bit longer than we saw before. It is several inches long but not very wide.

When I spoke to the surgeon he said that he feels that with my age (young;) we should be as aggressive as possible and go in and take it out. With that being said, the surgery is tentatively scheduled for December 28th. He said the earliest we could do the surgery was the beginning of December so I asked if we could wait until after Christmas so DH and I could still got to San Francisco. He said that was completely fine. He did say, no partying for me on New Year's Eve this year though:) He does think that this tumor is attached to my aorta and it's going to be very similar to my last surgery that he won't know what he will have to do until he gets in there. I asked what an open surgery entails and if it really means the breaking of ribs, he said no. They go in and cut the muscle in between the ribs but he said it's still very painful.

The thoracic surgeon did say that he has another patient with sy.no.vial cell sa.rc.oma who has lung nodules that he's been removing for 10 years now. She has nodules right now but they aren't growing so he's just letting them be and she's doing great. That is probably one of the most encouraging pieces of information that I've gotten in a long time.

I think that's all to report for today, I was able to get my flu shot while I was there so that's good.