If You Know Hospitals...

... then you might have suspected how much our plans would change this week. Yesterday Eric went in for the bone marrow biopsy and they decided to keep him overnight and do the PT Scan as well. This was a change of plans we welcomed, despite the fact that I had to stay home while he stayed up there. We are very grateful that they did both procedures yesterday, so that hopefully we will know everything by tomorrow (again, here I am, trying to make plans!).

They only biopsied one hip, and the only part that hurt was the needle to numb him, "like a hundred bee stings" I believe he said. Then Peggy and Eric waited in the waiting room until they fixed the scan machine and he was admitted to a room: the exact same room as the one we stayed in over Thanksgiving, in fact. One of the nurses didn't even know he'd left!

We have a few updates on the condition of his cancer. First, they have narrowed it down to two types of lymphoma: Hodgkin or PTCL. We are hoping it is Hodgkin, because the T Cell Lymphomas are far more rare and harder to treat (though still possible). His node biopsy actually showed positive for both of these, so they sent his nodes all the way to Washington D.C. to another specialist to determine with a finer test. The nodes are being sent back as I write this, and hopefully the rest of the results. Tomorrow we meet with our doctor to go over it, which we had planned for Thursday. Second, we know now that the cancer has not spread to any other systems (it is only in the nodes on his throat and groin). Third, Eric is starting to take steroids that will supplement his chemotherapy. There goes his baseball career.

That's it for now. Everyone let me know if you want posts more frequently, or less frequently I guess. I'm trying not to bombard you everyday with all my feelings, but I know everyone is interested. We are so thankful for all of your prayers, again, and all of your concern.