Hi, Everybody....
Thought I'd send the latest report on Paul's recovery. First of all, he's doing very well healing from the surgery. He's careful to not lift anything too heavy, but otherwise his activities are pretty normal. He did present a program to a grasslands coalition group two days out of the hospital. That was about too much, even though his presentation was fairly brief and he sat through it. He had a friend drive him, but they stayed too long and he was really tired for a couple of days. On Tuesday, we saw the oncologist. We both liked him immediately and he was easy to understand and took time to answer all of our questions. He said Paul had a 75-80% chance of being "cured" with nothing more than surgery. He said chemo would, at the most give him another 8% chance of no recurrence. He said his recommendation would be a "soft" one to do the chemotherapy; and really did not think it was enough of a significant improvement in outlook to encourage Paul to do it. So, with great relief and utter confidence in his decision, Paul said he chose NOT to take the chemo. The Dr. said he would take blood samples, CT scans, etc over the next several years whether Paul did the chemo or not. I suppose I kind of wish he would do it, but I do respect his choice. I just hope I have enough courage to be a good and supportive wife through all of this. Both the surgeon and the oncologist told Paul everyone has some cancer cells and our immune system gets rid of them. Paul's convinced he can work with his body and really doesn't want to destroy a lot of good cells to get at a few bad ones. Time will tell. But I tell myself he could go through the chemo and still have a 10%+ chance of a recurrence...
I go to Lincoln Mon and Tues for a staff meeting...that will give me something new to think about! Paul's sister is coming Tuesday to see her brother. That might be kind of stressful, but I know she wants to see for herself how he is!
All for now..........
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