The Surgery Date Is Set...

The office of Tanya's primary surgeon (Dr. Lee) has let us know that November 17th is the day.  Tanya is slated for surgery at 7:30 AM (we get to arrive at 5:30 AM).  It is further out than we had hoped, but at least it is now scheduled.

Spleen Ultrasound Results

We heard back from Dr. Lee (Tanya's surgeon) this afternoon with the results of the spleen ultrasound, and it is good news! The spot that Dr. Lee saw on Tanya's spleen from the chest CT appears to be a cyst, and nothing that needs to be worried about right now. We will have it looked at again in 6 months to see if anything has changed. For now it is one less thing to worry about.

An Interesting Article

We came across this article, 'Talking to someone with cancer', in the USA Weekend today. It's an interesting read.

Courage

Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, “Get the hell out of my way, I’ve got things to do.” 
- Author Unknown

Still Waiting...

We are still waiting to hear back on the results of the Spleen Ultrasound that Tanya had on Thursday. We hope to find out the results early this week, and also get confirmation on the date for surgery. I will post more as soon as I know more.

ENT Appointment (Dr. Hsieh)

Had our appointment with Dr. Hsieh today.  He confirmed that he has been in contact with Dr. Lee and that the two of them will assist each other in performing the thyroidectomy and modified neck dissection.  He also did a laryngoscopy to look at Tanya's throat and vocal chords.  The laryngoscopy wasn't as bad as either Tanya or I imagined (but still not all that fun), and only took a few minutes.

He will now coordinate with Dr. Lee to set a time for the surgery...  Hope to have an update on that soon.

Spleen Ultrasound

Finally heard back about setting up the spleen ultrasound.  It's scheduled for Thursday morning.