Back Home and Feeling Good

Had my scans yesterday and surgery today.

Dr. Tsue scraped out the dead bone from my lower left jaw. No reconstruction or anything like that required at this point. If it heals up the way he thinks it will this will be behind us for the time being at least. Dying bone is an on-going risk after radiation treatments.

While he was in there and had me asleep he did a pretty thorough examination of my throat, esophagus, larynx and all points in between. He took tissue out from a few different spots to run a biopsy on, though he said everything looked good and he doesn't expect anything to come of the biopsies.

He had only preliminary results from yesterday's CT and PET scans but said those both looked good. He said there were some hot spots in my throat from the PET Scan but those looked to be the result of the continued healing from Radiation rather than any cancer.

I'll get biopsy results from today's surgery early next week and I see my oncologist next Tuesday and he'll have final scan results to review with me including the pictures themselves.

So, I'm in a pretty good mood right now. Tentatively optimistic now, reserving the real celebrations for next week after I get all the final stuff.

But, a "Yippee!" is still in order.