Hello friends I wanted to give you this update on Dennis as we went to see the radiation Dr. today to see if Dennis could start radiation. Well I guess I need to backup just a little. We went to a surgeon on the 22nd and to make it short the surgeon said Dennis was not able to have surgery because he has 8 different areas that has cancer in the esophagus. Some are masses and some are lymph nodes. Anyhow the surgery would have taken a min. of 6 hrs. and a 7 day stay in the hospital but since Dennis has so many areas it is not possible to have surgery.
Today we went to the radiation Dr. He told us that Dennis is not able to have radiation at this point because the cancer is in his lymph node in the upper part of his neck and it goes clear down to either the stomach or right outside the stomach area. He said that Dennis would have been to sick to have all of that area with radiation because depending on where they put the radiation would be a different symptom of illness and he could not handle that much illness at once. He said Dennis is in Stage 4 of the cancer.
So we are now waiting for the surgeon to do another endoscope on Dennis which they will be doing a lot of biopsy’s to make certain that the 8 spots are def. all 8 has cancer in them.
If they do then the next step is chemo. We are trying to stay positive and we are definitely keeping are faith. We know we have a long road ahead. So the next thing is the endoscope hopefully soon then see his reg oncologist on the 1st. Everyone has been so supportive and I thank you for all the prayers that you are saying on a daily bases. Today was Dennis birthday he turned 57. Happy Birthday my love.