It is March 2018. Brian had his regular CT scan in February. The cancer has really ramped up and is growing quickly. He's had to be on high dose prednisone because of the pnuemonitis and that keeps the Nivilumab from working. We thought he only had one small tumor but he has two. One in each lung. This past Thursday (the 22nd of March) he had a wedge resection of his lower right lung. Dr. Lambright was able to remove the tumor and sees no more cancer in that lung! Now we are recovering at home. He will have another wedge resection of his upper left lung (which has a much larger tumor) on April 12th. We are praying that Dr. Lambright has the same amount of success with this next surgery. Vanderbilt has no more treatment options for Brian if this surgery is unsuccessful, or if the melanoma comes back again. Our next best option is to get approved to go to MD Anderson in Houston, Texas. We are planning on the surgery being as successful as this one was.
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| ICU oxygen walker |
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| Chest tubes are huge! |
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| Breakfast last day in ICU |
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