Home and recovering!

Yeah, Steve is home from the hospital and recovering just fine. Friday Steve was admitted to the hospital to have a biopsy performed on the tumor that has made its home on Steve's mediastinum. Little does this tumor know that after we receive the biopsy results that it will be evicted ASAP either by additional chemotherapy and radiation or surgery to remove it. The surgeon stated that while he was in there he would have loved to just cut the whole thing out but that would require cracking open Steve's chest cavity to get it and if this is still Lymphoma that won't do him a lot of good because he will still require additional chemotherapy and radiation. Second while he was in there doing the biopsy on the mass he also noticed a cyst on Steve's pericardium so he removed it-nothing serious just a congenital abnormality that could cause questioning on his CT scans. While in the hospital Steve did have to spend one night in ICU as a precaution because he had to have a chest tube placed because the surgeon had to go through the pleural cavity and because Steve has been on Bleomycin (one of the chemotherapy drugs) for that past 6 months which is hard on the lungs. All in all everything went pretty smooth with only a minor infection and Steve was able to come home in 2 1/2 days instead of 4.

So glad that is over.....3 hour surgery felt like days. I thought I was going to have a heart attack waiting. And 2 1/2 days in the hospital to Steve felt like an eternity. So glad to be HOME!

Thanks everyone! We couldn't get through this without all of our friends and family support. I wish I could thank every single one of you personally.

Thank you, thank you........

Steve, Angie and the boys!