Monday, Jan 13th Info

A quick update on today's activities. The day started out around 4:30 a.m. in order to get to the Radiosurgery Center for 6:00 a.m., so it was quite an early start! After being fitted with a frame for his head, an MRI was done to make calculations for delivering the radiation. They had to wait awhile for this to be completed and finally around noon he was taken back for the actual gamma knife procedure. Just to give a nice visual - Star Wars is a big hit with Sandi's 5 year old son Kylen and for Christmas he got a mask and several different colored light sabers. We all got to play "Star Wars" many times over the holidays and apparently with the frame on his head, my dad looked like something straight out of Star Wars and would have been a very worthy opponent for Kyle! OK - back to the update, after the procedure was done, they kept him for about another hour or so while he recovered, and then he was able to come home. He had a slight headache and was starving, other than that it was just like a day at the park - OK, slight exaggeration, but really, overall he is doing well and can resume normal activity after 24 hours.
The MRI that was performed today was more detailed than the one he had on 12/31, and the neurologist could readily visualize the necrosis taking place in the first tumor, so that was great to hear.
Tomorrow, he will return to the Radiosurgery Center to be fitted for the body mold for the synergy radiation to his lung. He will have the 1st treatment on 1/20, the next one on 1/29 and the last one on 2/5.
In between the Radiation treatments of 1/20 and 1/29, my parents will get to make a trip to Tampa, FL to attend the Marine Corp retirement ceremony of son-in-law, Louis (Jacquie's husband). They are glad to get the green light to go ahead and attend as they are extremely proud of not only Louis for his service to our country, but of Jacquie and all she has done to support Louis and raise two great kids as a military spouse. So a big Marine ooh-rah shout out to Louis as he completes his 28 year military career! Thank you, Louis for your service and commitment to our great Country.
We didn't get many pictures at Christmas as it was kind of a whirlwind event (we were busy playing Star Wars after all!), but we'll make sure to have pictures from Louis' retirement to share with everyone.
We appreciate continued prayer for successful results from the radiation treatments and that this would be the last time the cancer makes an appearance. It's enough already....