We finally heard from our surgeon in St. Louis on Monday evening. Scott and him discussed the worrisome scans and increasing lab values and figured out a plan of action. He said that this surgery should be relatively straight forward and not as involved as the last one, so we can do it here! Also, he was somewhat dumbfounded that there could even be anything there still, as he said he took 87 lymph nodes out of that area of Scott's neck in the first surgery, which means there shouldn't be any left. I guess this little one's a fighter - it's days are numbered though now.
We have been in contact with a surgeon here at Ochsner in town, and he had a cancellation today and will be fitting us in for an appointment this afternoon. (Thank you so much Eric for agreeing on such short notice to cover the ICU for Scott for an hour so we can go to this!) So, hopefully we'll have more news following this, and possibly even a surgery date!
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