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Friday, November 6th, 2009

We have some dates now. Dr. Dorsen wants to meet with Chloe, on the 25th of November, to do a good exam on her before the surgery. This will include some blood work, which Chloe isn’t crazy about but knows it’s necessary.

Then, at 5:30am, on December 2nd, Dr. Dorsen will perform the surgery to remove the tumor from Chloe’s brainstem. This is the plan and we want to see it happen just as planned.

Based on the current pictures from the MRI the belief is that maybe, just maybe, the tumor is not into the brain stem as originally thought. Rather it may be just on the surface. The part that re-grew did so away from the brainstem, the direction of least resistance.

If Dr. Dorsen can scrape just a little of the stem he may be able to get the entire tumor. He assures us that he will only go to a safe depth. The best chance of it not re-growing is if he can get most or all of it.

The game plan after surgery will be to monitor Chloe with MRIs every three months for the next two years. Then the MRIs would be every four months and so on until we just don’t see it anymore!

Tonight Dana and Chloe had an, at home, date night, just hanging out and watching, what else, “Twilight.” I’m surprised that one isn’t scorched by now. Dana said it was really quiet as Colin was with his buddies overnight. The drums in the basement have taken a night off. Between the piano, his song writing and singing, and the drums, I’d say there isn’t much chance for naps before midnight.

Dana is fighting a cold but her biggest frustration is that her laptop is fried. She hasn’t been able to get or send emails in a week. We are going to have someone look at it on Sunday and he will let us know what we need to do. Probably needs to be completely cleaned and some operating system re-installed. It’s bad enough that she only has dial-up but now that it’s not going online at all it’s a real problem… especially now.

Please keep the vigil. You are part of the strength.

Blessings,
Ron