As recently mentioned, Brent went in to have surgery done yesterday. Prior to the surgery, they did an endoscopy through his throat/esophagus down to his stomach to look for a certain type of hernia that would exclude him from having this experimental procedure done.
During the endoscopy they found a tumor in his stomach. They took a biopsy and had to abort the procedure... It will take 4 days to get the results back, but they did an ultrasound to make sure there weren't any other growths on the outside of the stomach and didn't find anything. He will be seeing a specialist next week, as either way they'll need to do surgery to remove the tumor.
Brent has been very happy with the Dr.'s and staff at the U of M and Fairview. The Dr. said that someone must be looking out for him, because if he hadn't signed up to do this study, it wouldn't have been found and we wouldn't have been able to get a jump start on it. Whatever "it" is.
Please keep us (especially Brent) in your thoughts... I am trying not to freak out about it, and am being careful not to stress Brent out, but this type of thing terrifies me so I'm struggling.
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Thinking Happy thoughts for you Angela... hang in there kiddo!
You and Brent are in our thoughts...
Big hugs, Angela. I'll be sending lots of prayers your way!
Thinking lots of good thoughts for Brent and prayers that it'll all be benign, nothing too serious and easily fixed. I hope those 4 days fly by!
You are both in my thoughts!!
I'm thinking of you guys! I hope everything works out well for him...keep us posted!
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