The port-au-catheter surgery went well, although I had to have the needle inserted into my neck as Dr. Stoeckle could not get it into an artery around my heart. Then I developed a blood clot (no surprise I wouldn't develop something!), so he had to remove the outside stitches around the port on Sunday. I'm on an antibiotic for a week, and it seems to have helped as the clot is draining and shrinking, thank goodness.
I'll have a PET scan done on Saturday to determine the size of the mass, the neck sutures removed on Monday, then meet with Dr. McCoy on Tuesday to discuss the plan-of-action for chemo, which will probably begin the week after Mother's Day. The PET scan will also determine how many treatments I will have to endure but right now he thinks it will be 4. I may not have to be hospitalized for the treatment, too, which would be great.
Please keep me on your prayer lists!
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Hey Beth, Sending prayers & love from Danville.
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