Pre-Op

Hello.

We arrived at St. Agnes around 9:30am and proceeded through registration. Jim was shown to a room around 10:30am, then the "fun" began. They had to run tests, blood tests (~7 vials worth), EKG, chest x-ray, 50+ questions... He's also participating in a clinical study about bacteria and PMP, they need to collect urine and tumor samples (done during surgery) to test for microbial presence (they suspect a bacteria plays a part in a person getting PMP). Mostly today was spent waiting for the next person to enter and reading through the pauses..

His mom, brother, sister-in-law, and aunt came to be with him through the next two days. He is scheduled for surgery at 7:45 am and will start the process at 6:45am.. So the plan is to get there before he starts the process (me specifically since I have his most recent CT scans) and wait... It's expected that the surgery/chemotherapy will take 6-10hrs.

Two out of three cancer markers came back non-detect (the last marker hadn't been reported yet), which is a good sign. So if everything goes well, he should be in ICU early tomorrow afternoon and then assigned a recover room on the 7th floor a day or so afterwards...

I'll update tomorrow on how the surgery went.