Post Surgery News

So everyone, we had to be up here at MDAnderson at 5:15am. We were here BEFORE the people who were suppose to check us in. They took J back to PRe-op and did all that fun stuff and finally took him back to the OR around 7:30am. At about 10:30 we got an update from a nurse that they were closing him up and the Dr. would be out to talk to us in a bit.
Dr. Azeem(J's neurosurgeon)talked to us and said that the preliminary readings on the frozen section they did show that this is seminoma. THis means that this is the same cancer that we have been dealing with since 2008. He said that they took a good portion of the sacrum(tailbone) that did not have anything to do with structural support. He said they also removed quite a bit of epidural tissue(tissue surrounding the epidural space in the spine) that was decompressing some nerves and causing Jason problems. He said that only time will tell whether or not this was successful but he did say upon closing that the nerves looked good. Jason has a drain in his back until the output of some stuff(blood, plasma, I dont know what else) is lessend. He let Dr. Tannir know of the findings of the frozen section and more information will be known later this week. Once we know a little bit more we will hammer out a treatment plan that will be implemented in a week to two weeks depending on Jason's healing. He is resting relatively comfortably he has a good amount of pain meds on board and has a PCA pump (diluadid at the touch of a button). I know that he has consults for physical therapy, occupational therapy, rehab and physical medicine ( i have no idea what this is), and chronic pain medicine. I dont really know how long we will be in here this time. Dr. Azeem said that they would probably start on the oncological (cancer dr) side of things before we are released, but I really wont know until we talk with Dr. Tannir. So all in all I dont really know where we stand, but I do know that we stand ready to fight again. We are in room p828 and again I shamelessly ask for net notes(see previous post or the one before that) or an email, they help lift our spirits! Thank you all for all the prayers I know that were being offered in Jason's name. As ususal they are always welcomed! Love to all, Kimmy