We went to see our doctor in San Francisco yesterday. He checked me over and looked at my incisions. He thought they looked good and that I was on the road to healing up my wounds. He talked about my pathology report for my tumor and what the next phase will be. There was 17 lymph nodes in the area around the tumor, and they found microscopic tumors in three of them. It looks like I will be having about 3 series of chemo about 3 weeks apart. He also thought I will not be having any radiation at all. Seems that I got off easy.

Eating and drinking are still a work in process. We are still trying to find the right combination of foods and liquids that I can tolerate. No hot liquids at all. Anything close to hot gives me an instant stomach ache. I eat small portions more often now. No hard fruit or vegetables, everything has to be easy to digest.

The pain continues, just not to the degree it was in the hospital. The bandages are gone, all the tubes are now gone, and just a couple of holes remain. I should be in the home stretch. We see our second surgeon next week on Wednesday. I will post again soon.