Hubby Update

Hubby's Dr. appointment went well this week, not bad news but not great news either. The tumors removed were all non-malignant growth tumors so no chemo & no radiation. His Dr. is pretty concerned about how quickly the tumors returned, & how agressive they were in covering the whole bladder. He wants to keep a very close eye on this because he doesnt want it to move outside his bladder or worse to other organs and possibly become malignant. He stressed the importance of Hubby losing weight & being more healthy should he need to have surgery for a bladder replacement. So, the plan for now is Hubby has to do 6 weeks of BCG treatments, and then surgery again in August. He hates hates hates the BCG treatments, and without having done it myself I would have to agree! The surgery in August is just bypassing a step in doing a cystoscopy. Instead of doing the cysto to look inside his bladder to see if he has any new tumors, he will be put under so if they see any they can go ahead and remove them all in one step. Hubby doesnt like this idea at all, he hates all this stuff and even though hes had this for 10 years now he still has not been able to grasp and accept it. Its gonna be a rough few months for sure. Hubby has done BCG treatments several times before and they were no success, so he doesnt see the point in doing them again. The time when he did have a good report he was drinking this stuff my aunt got snagged into called Mona Vie. I dont believe in a miracle cure in a bottle, but we are going to try it again & see what happens this go around.

We will find out this week when the treatments are to start. This is going to be a rough Summer! I wanted to post this picture, its on the building its says "to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer."