Today is my meeting with Dr. McMasters and Carol joins me for the visit. As I feared, he tells me that the cancer has spread to one of the two lymph nodes and to the lymphatic channel. Oh he**! On the positive side (pretty ironic to have a positive aspect to moving from a stage 1b cancer to a stage 3a disease) he says that it is very encouraging that the cancer was microscopic, in fact they had to use special stains to detect it under the microscope and that it was only evident in one of the two lymph nodes that they removed. All of a sudden my chance of five year survival just dropped to 70%. The next step is surgical removal of the remaining lymph nodes (axillary dissection) in my armpit and decide on whether or not to pursue interferon treatment. Surgery is set for May 21st.
Rita comes over to the house as soon as I call her on the way home and spends the afternoon with me. When I call Steve Cullen to tell him, he immediately leaves work and comes over to comfort me. My friends and my faith may be the only way that I survive this disease.
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About Me
- John Hardesty
- I know more about cancer than I ever cared to learn from watching my younger sister and my son die from the disease. Scouts and fishing are my life. I have the most wonderful friends imaginable, it is quite a diverse group but they are a wonderful support system.
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