On to Radiation

Trying to get caught up, last Tuesday I went to see another radiation specialist on getting rid of the tumors on my liver. It appears that I have quite a few lesions on the left plus the right side of my liver. So they sent me to a new doctor specializing in the liver, apparently their not to worried about the tumors in my chest or the abdomen.

Their solution that they came up with so far is, they cut a small incision in my artery in the groin area, slide a tube up the vein, and distribute these little glass balls to the area of each one of these lesions. Now the purpose of these balls is two-fold. One they go into the veins of the liver until they get lodged in the capillaries and cut off the blood supply to each lesion. The second use is that they are covered in radiation which of course kills the tumors, or that's the theory anyway.

Now their thinking is that the tumor in the lung no problem, the tumor in the abdomen 50/50, but the liver, even after that procedure their will be more trouble on it's way. And I have no idea as of yet what would be next. Once again, I have to tell you, I'm voting for the vitamin c.

My Oncologist has talked to the top doctor on this type of cancer, and he said their is no more chemo, I've had every drug they have and nothing worked. He also talked to the top doctors at Sloan Kettering to no avail. Their are some other thing that they are looking into, but nothing real decisive yet.

The reason that it took so long to get a post out is that the next day I went into the hospital due to pain and was not released until Friday at 2:00. Then of course we had to get ready for the sabbath which ended around 6:00 tonight. So I give all praise and glory to the Lord for another sabbath with my wife. Which we achieved some great study in Job and Luke.

Lord willing I should post soon,



JMHJ