Well, I was able to secure meetings with some top flight folks at MD Anderson for Tuesday & Wednesday of this coming week. MDA said go ahead and get lung biopsy in Michigan before I head to Texas which I did on Friday. Biopsy procedure collapsed my lung and they cannot get it to hold up yet. Still in hospital and may be for a few more days.

So I can�t fly for at least two weeks, will miss my meetings set for early in the week with MDA and am just plain pissed off. I will try and reschedule meetings for end of week and take a train if they will let me out of this hospital. Doctor that did biopsy said it was rough (obviously) and he may not have gotten a viable sample for the pathologist, so I may have to start this whole thing from scratch if I can ever get to Houston. Pathology results in on Monday (if at all).

Wish me luck.


Kelly
Male
48, SCC (Soft Palet) Rt.,
Stage 1, T3n0m0,
Dx, 8-09, Start IMRT 35 9-2-09 end 10-21-09
04-20-10 NED
8-11 recurrence, node rt. neck N2b
10-11 33 IMRT w/chemo wkly
3-12-12 PET - residual cancer
4-12 5 treatments with Cyberknife & Erbitux
6-19-12 Pet scan CLEAR
12-3-12 PET - CLEAR