Post surgery update
by Kyle & Vanessa on 02/14/13
We arrived home from the hospital at around 5pm this evening. Kyle was exhausted, as was I, so we took a well deserved nap. He got up at about 9:30 and is moving around much better than when he left the recovery room this afternoon. He has a lot of pain in his upper chest where the tumour was removed, so hoping things will start healing quickly and he starts to get some relief from the pain. He'll have the day off from treatment tomorrow so he can get lots of rest and work on getting his energy back up. As I mentioned earlier, I only spoke with the surgeon briefly after the surgery, but he said he was quite surprised about the depth and size of the tumour; they anticipated it would have been much closer to the skin and a bit larger. He said everything went as planned and he was able to get more than the required amount of tissue to send off to the lab for testing , which is great news since the number of chemo drugs they will be able to test against Kyle's tumour, depends upon the number of cancer cells in the tissue sample. However, just because they were able to remove lots of tissue, doesn't necessarily mean there will be tonnes of cells in it...there could be 1 or 2 or could be 30...we'll know more once the tissue arrives at the lab in California tomorrow. That's all for now...we'll try to keep the mini-updates coming on a more regular basis. Thank you for all of your support! Love,
