Hi Deb,

I know how you feel. Waiting a month seems like an eternity. The thing is with these surgeries it is pretty complex. They have to put a team together and plan it out. Nov 4th is a month. I had to wait a month too. It was terrible as you just want this horrible thing gone from your body forever.

They won't do radiation or chemo before because it will be too hard on him to do that and then have surgery. He'd probably have to wait longer to heal up from that.

Get the best Dr. you can. A lot of what you may think is the tumor growing is just more swelling because the body wants it gone... but I know its troublesome that it is growing... See what you can do to move up the date but I'd stick with getting the best Dr. you can versus getting an earlier date.

Hang in there!