11 March, 2010

Diagnosis

Cancer:
After two and a half weeks of going back and forth, being put through test after test, they finally figure out that the mass on his liver is cancerous.

Prognosis:
They can't do anything right now because they are afraid of him bleeding into his stomach again. Which happened last week. They have to wait for that to heal before they can do any surgery. For now they are putting something in his liver to cut off the blood flow to that specific section and some surrounding effected tissue so that the tumor will shrink. In three weeks he will go back in and find out if his stomach has healed enough to go through the surgery to remove the tumor. If so, they will.

Untill then, they have also discovered a spot in one of his lungs that they are taking a look at. For now it doesn't seem to be anything major, but now that they have found cancer, they will be checking to make sure that it isn't cancerous as well.

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