I'm a happy girl

Second blog entry in 1 day...I know sorry...but I'm very excited!

Ok, so we had our appointment with Dr Gerson today.  I LOVE THIS WOMAN!  Yes we had to sit in the tiny room for a long time waiting and then when she got to us she had another patient with an issue and had to ditch us....but she is SO worth the wait!  Going into this appointment she knew we were not feeling the news from the ENT doctor.  She took a look and agreed with Jason that YES it had indeed gotten larger...but as she says "That's what it does without treatment!"  She had talked to Dr Chua (oncologist) and was waiting to hear from the ENT doctor.  While we were there she got a hold of him and talked with him about our plan.  Apparently he gave her a totally different answer than he told us!  He agreed with her about doing treatment BEFORE surgery!  This confuses me because he was pretty set on surgery first and I felt like he was trying to scare us into it!

So Dr. Gerson says, "He is on board with our plan of chemo and radiation then if need be....surgery.  THANK GOD!  I'm done questioning why he changed his mind.....I'm just happy that we can proceed as we all think is best!  Jason was wanting to know about his ear pain and the swollen lump of a lymph node.  Dr Gerson said it may go down right away!  It's hard to tell but she said he has youth, healthiness and non-smoking on his side! She also thinks after treatment he will heal fast thanks to those 3 items!  Dr Gerson wants him on a regular vitamin, extra D and extra protein. She also said none to a little caffeine and no soda....well he can have 1 a day.

They will most likely start chemo the same day they start radiation and that date is still set for next week.  1/11/12. We are waiting to hear back about when Jason will have his G tube placed.  We are getting so close to starting this fight and we are so very  much ready!

I just wanted to let everyone know that today went as well as it could have and we are so happy! They also said they sent an order in on the biopsy....they want it tested to see if it has traits of HPV.  If so....that means it will be easier to treat!  Same treatment plan, but it usually responds better.

THANK YOU for all your kind words, thoughts and prayers! Today was just what we needed to help our mood! :)