Here is the report after a full day of doctors visits. I am unfortunately not cured as we knew. I am healing well from my surgery and am ready to undergo the next stage of treatment. I will start an aggressive combination of radiation and chemotherapy May 17 in Albuquerque. Radiation will be 5 days a week for 6-7 weeks. Chemotherapy will be 5 days straight for the first week and then will be tapered off with a total of 12 treatments I think. I will have an exact schedule this Friday. There is a stump so to speak of the tumor in the Mediastinum, the region between the lungs so it puts me in the high risk category. Meaning great care and precision will have to be taken during radiation to prevent much damage to the right lung. Damage is inevitable so I will most likely be on oxygen at some point. I still have positive nodes that were inoperable. Without a procedure that can be done down the road my voice will not be normal again due to nerve damage during surgery. My Radiation Oncologist said the disease is serious, high risk, and life threatening. As far as my prognosis, how long do I have? We did not want to go there we will leave that in the hand of God.
Solomon said in Ecclesiastes 9, "The race is not to the swift, Nor the battle to the strong, Nor bread to the wise, Nor riches to men of understanding, Nor favor to men of skill; But time and chance happen to them all. For man also does not know his time: Like fish taken in a cruel net, Like birds caught in a snare, So the sons of men are snared in an evil time, When it falls suddenly upon them." I will follow Solomon's exhortation to live joyfully with the wife whom I love all the days of my vain life which God has given me under the sun; for it is my portion in life, and in the labor which I perform under the sun. Whatever my hand finds to do, I will do it with my might!
