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Update May 14, 2025

Yesterday did not go as originally planned. The cancer did spread to my liver, so the lesions that showed up back in July in the liver were actually cancerous. Yesterday, they did a small incision and waited for the biopsy of the liver to confirm before they would go forward with the Whipple surgery. At that point it was clear that the Whipple surgery could not proceed. I will be in the hospital until at least tomorrow. Then they will discuss a plan for a course of action going forward. Both the oncological surgeon and oncologist seem optimistic but surgery is not an option going forward. I'm feeling fine and I’ll keep you updated.

Updated 5/5/2025

As of today, I have cleared all the hurdles needed to have surgery next Tuesday. I'll update this after surgery. Thanks in advance for all the well wishes!!! If you need any orders or information, please reach out to my e-mail [email protected]. Hopefully by next Wednesday or Thursday I'll be answering my e-mails!

Update 1/31/2025. On January 17 I had a procedure to clear out the stricture from the prostate cancer radiation. I had the foley catheter in till Wednesday January 22 with the intention of starting light chemo and radiation on January 23. The chemo pills did not arrive till Friday so everything was pushed back until Monday Jan 27. in the past week I developed a tickle in my throat that led to coughing spasms. When I tried to hold my breath, it led to more coughing spasms. Penn Med sent me home with a few remedies so that we could try again on Tuesday with no success. Penn referred me to the ER and after doing some blood work and scans I was admitted to Doylestown Hospital with chronic heart failure. They removed about 750 ML of fluid from my left lung and we are waiting for the pathology to hopefully come back clean. If it does, we will look at what options we are doing going forward since the MRI show significant reduction in the size of the pancreatic tumor. Right now, I am home from the hospital and just hoping on clean pathology on the lung fluid so we can tackle the next hurdle on this road to recovery.

Update as of Jan 6, 2025.
Last week I saw my Nephrologist and received a good report and will not have to return till next January. Today I saw the Cardiologist and received another good report. Reduced some medications. Good EKG. Will get an echo so I'll be cleared for surgery. Saw radiation oncologist and the plan is to get CT scan and MRI in the next few days. Will be 25 radiation and 5 chemo light treatments. I am waiting for my visit with the GI doctor on Monday to set the schedule. Again, everything is looking good just have to shrink the tumor more around the SMV and we should be good to go to surgery. Still on schedule to reevaluate in mid-March.

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