It's been a good evening and Jon is awake, alert, and in minimal pain. We just had our visit with Dr. Gosswami and he informed us that they were able to address all of the remaining tumors on both sides of Jon's liver today. We will not know the final outcome from this procedure for about 8 weeks as the chemo will continue working and tumors will continue to die. They will do an MRI of the liver at the end of that time. Dr. Gosswami also told us that there is only one tumor in Jon's right lung that has increased in size. He suggested that we move up our appointment with Dr. Chue and schedule a PET scan to see any active cancer outside the liver. He still thinks Dr. Chue will want to do one round of systemic chemo but we may have the option of radiofrequency ablation should the one right lung tumor be the only active one in Jon's body. We will know more within the coming weeks.

I have to laugh when I watch Jon interact with all of these doctors and surgeons. He is such a character and it is obvious that they don't have any other patients like him. After Dr. Gosswami went over all of the medical information Jon gave him a 15 minute dissertation on Ultimate Fighting and how he should come over and watch it sometime. He also talked about how he had to hug Dr. Chue even though it is very taboo in the Chinese culture. Dr. Gosswami laughed so hard and told Jon that Dr. Chue is still probably in therapy over that!

Jon's spirits are good tonight. I think he's relieved that this time around seemed to be much easier on his body. Let's hope for a quick recovery and a chance for him to do some deer hunting in October.