Bummers

This last week has been full of calls to insurance, consults with doctors, making appointments, and lots of cell phone minutes used talking to friends and family.  We talked to Dr. Moley after he reviewed all the reports and he has said the lymph node needs to come out within the next month.  We are also getting a PET Scan (basically a detailed CT Scan) on Tuesday morning to look at the rest of Scott's body and make sure nothing else has popped up.
Dr. Moley contacted one of the Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons he works with to do the surgery.  Scott will need to have a Microsternectomy, which makes me sick to my stomach as they will have to cut through bone to get to the lymph node(s) behind his sternum.  After Dr. Moley's scheduler worked for a whole day, re-arranging schedules, the soonest time we are able to get into an OR at Washington University with both of these doctors is on August 25th.  Because Dr. Moley originally said he wanted to do surgery sooner than that, we are still waiting to see if this date can be moved up.
Scott is still consulting with other doctors and we are going to try and see a Cardio-Thoracic surgeon here in town this week to get more opinions on the plan of care.  We may also talk with another Ear, Nose and Throat doctor and see if they have more ideas.  We want to continue to explore all of our options, to be absolutely sure of our choices.
As a result of all of this, I will be calling Frontier School of Midwifery tomorrow to decline my spot to start the Graduate School program this fall semester.  The week of orientation would start a few days after Scott's surgery and we both think school + work + cancer are a little too overwhelming at this point.  We are also going to miss two weddings we were really looking forward to, and our two week vacation out of the country  set for the beginning of September.  Major bummers all around, but we are moving on and trying to accept it all.  We hope that we can get this icky stuff out of the way now, and we're sure there will be plenty more vacations later.
Thanks for the continued prayers and calls and texts and comments and love you send!  We are so grateful for it all :)