The plan is made...

Short update tonight: Today we had a phone consultation with the oncologist as he was at home recovering from his ankle surgery. It was good to get another doctor’s opinion on how we should go about slaying this big C.

After talking to him, we’ve decided to do chemotherapy first with surgery after that. Doing chemo first will hopefully shrink up the tumors in order to make the surgery that will follow less extensive and have better recovery time. Although the main tumor is 3cm in diameter, when you put all the spots of cancer that they see together, it is about 7 1/2 cm in diameter. Because of this, they want to treat it aggressively with chemo as the risk for spreading to other parts of the body is higher.

The plan is that Kimberly will have six rounds of chemo. She’ll go in every three weeks, and each time it will be 3 hours on an IV, followed by returning the next day for a shot that will help her immune system.

Treatment won’t start for another few weeks, but during that time, Kimberly will have a PET/CT scan to see if there is any spreading into other parts of her body, a couple doctors appointments, and blood tests.

We appreciate your continued thoughts and prayers as we embark on this journey!

-Kenny