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BREAKING NEWS – 6/2/2005 – 5PM PST

Thursday, June 2nd, 2005

They just called with our surgery date. The tumor meets it’s demise this Tuesday at 12 or 2pm! Sam’s lymph nodes will go along with this but we think the kidney and aorta/vena cava are just fine. We are ecstatic. Typically, this type of surgery will require a day in the pediatric ICU followed by […]

June 2, 2005

Thursday, June 2nd, 2005

We just met with surgeon and got the go-ahead for surgery. Woo hoo! It’s tough to decipher medical lingo but the MAX tumor dimension is 6cm so it sounds like it’s shrunk a bunch. The bone scan results were briefly discussed by the nurse case manager and they indicated that nothing has changed in the […]

June 1, 2005

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

Hi all… Still no bone scan results but we are very, very encouraged by everything else – Sam’s appetite, energy, bowel movements (don’t laugh!), curiousity. Our appointment with the surgeon is tomorrow at noon so we hope to have a surgery date scheduled. Margot visited Sam’s kindergarten class today during an open house and really […]

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