Round eleven wow! This chapter of our treatments has gone by really fast. It's hard to believe that one more and we come to the end of chapter 2. What will chapter 3 bring is the big question.
I just thought this was kind of funny. They leave this syringe hooked up after taking his blood.
So some may know that we were looking at doing surgery after round 12, but after talking to the Dr. today we have decided differently. Cody's Dr. has taken Cody's case in front of the tumor board and we didn't get even one yes for surgery. After hearing that we were a little discouraged, but listening to their reason made a whole lot of sense. Cody's tumor in his colon is not the main tumor that is affecting his life. Even though it was the main feeding one its not his biggest problem. The tumor in the colon has shrunk down to the point of not even being detected in a CT scan. So if we went forth with surgery and removed this tumor he would have to be taken off chemo for a minimum of 6 weeks. In that time we are chancing that the tumors in the Liver could start growing in a rapid rate.
These last two weeks between chemo has been rather stressful ones for Cody and I. Cody has been facing more of the side affects to the chemo than before. We knew this time would come and that we have been truly blessed these past 5 months. So we have truly had to make some decisions regarding what our next chapter was going to hold for us. So after hearing that it is truly his liver that is threatening his life we felt very strongly to leave the colon alone for now. We need Cody to be as strong and healthy in the months to come to be able to fight.
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