Dan woke up Maggie yesterday morning with a surprise text:
YAY!
This means while inside Dan, the doc's also extracted a couple lymph nodes. This type of cancer commonly spreads using the lymphatic system. We weren't sure yet if it had begun to metastasize like that or not. Thankfully, it doesn't look like it. Right now, it looks like we've got the best possible outcome of all this, and despite discovering the cancer pretty late, it hasn't spread! Dan could possibly be cancer free!
Of course, scans in the near future will determine if this is so or not. And even if Dan is currently cancer free, we'll always have to be wary of it returning in the future, as it unfortunately often does in many cancer patients. We have good access to good doctors though, who will keep us on a tight scanning and testing timeline, so we'll always be checking to make sure.
Today Dan is having the chest drain and a few different tubes still left removed. He'll be down to just an IV for the blood thinner heparin. And hopefully in a few days we can start talking about when he can come home!
YAY!
This means while inside Dan, the doc's also extracted a couple lymph nodes. This type of cancer commonly spreads using the lymphatic system. We weren't sure yet if it had begun to metastasize like that or not. Thankfully, it doesn't look like it. Right now, it looks like we've got the best possible outcome of all this, and despite discovering the cancer pretty late, it hasn't spread! Dan could possibly be cancer free!
Of course, scans in the near future will determine if this is so or not. And even if Dan is currently cancer free, we'll always have to be wary of it returning in the future, as it unfortunately often does in many cancer patients. We have good access to good doctors though, who will keep us on a tight scanning and testing timeline, so we'll always be checking to make sure.Today Dan is having the chest drain and a few different tubes still left removed. He'll be down to just an IV for the blood thinner heparin. And hopefully in a few days we can start talking about when he can come home!
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