Too Soon to Tell

It’s been an uneventful couple of days in the hospital, and we’re slowly but surely working back to health and defeating nausea. We’ve also learned some new information over the weekend.

A Hannah Update

I’m feeling SO much better. Thanks for your prayers. I’d guess I’m more tired than normal, but that could just as well be from nurses coming in and out of the room at night.

An Update from Andrew

We’re excited that Andrew has been able to eat some food while on the IV meds. The most recent doctor’s goal is to get Andrew completely off the IV and able to eat and drink before sending him home. If all goes smoothly, he’ll be discharged Monday afternoon.

And All the Doctors

I must say, if ever you want a second opinion on something, admit yourself to the hospital over a weekend. We’ve spoken with multiple cancer doctors, PAs, palliative care (basically chemo-side-effect management), and plenty of knowledgable nurses. It’s a bit bewildering to be honest. We get used to a picture from one doctor, and then someone else paints it differently and gives different/more information.

Painting in Broad Strokes

Let’s start at the beginning, shall we? The doctor recommended chemotherapy because his markers were up. There also was a nodule on his lung which is an area for potential concern.

We’ve completed treatment, but the chemo is still working it’s way through Andrew’s body. We will not know about his cancer markers for another month or two. However, a CT scan was ordered to check his lungs because he was having a hard time breathing.

There was not a discovery of what caused his breathing troubles, but they’ve gone away. There was, however, some blood clots in his lungs. Left unchecked, these lead to strokes. We’ve caught them early and will be treating them with blood thinners for at least the next year.

There was also feedback that the nodule in Andrew’s lungs has grown slightly. This most likely means the nodule is not testicular cancer. It could be not cancerous at all, or it could be another form of cancer. The best way to know is to do a lung biopsy, so that delicate procedure may be coming up in our not so distant future. We can also get a clue of that when we have our follow up meeting with the cancer doctor in a month or two and look at the cancer markers in his blood.

Thanks for following our journey so far. We’re hoping Andrew will be discharged Monday afternoon once he completely transition off of IV meds and fluids and to taking his pills and eating solid foods again.

Thanks for following our journey thus far; we’re not done yet.