I find myself feeling disappointed and out-of-luck as we get closer and closer to the time that radiation will begin and I can’t find an out. Andy is now 95/5 in favor of radiation. My only hope is that St. Judes will come forth with something that indicates based on the DNA they extract from the 2012 tumor that it is very unlikely to behave aggressively. The 2012 tumor cells showed scarring from the 2010 surgery and looked a lot less scary than the 2010 tumor cells, which is encouraging. I just hope this information comes quickly. Jude is scheduled for surgery tomorrow at 7:30 a.m. (with a 6 a.m. arrival) to place a port in his chest for administering his daily anesthesia for his 6 weeks and 3 days of radiation treatment. Poor little Jude will be back in the hospital yet again tomorrow and get yet another poke.    Â
I suppose my only other hope is that IU takes so long getting the radiation mask built that we are ½ way to the next MRI and then I could say that we should just continue to wait and see. But, this is unlikely to occur since I told the IU doctor that I don’t want them pushing back the radiation too far since we were initially told there was a 30 day window from surgery for maximum effectiveness (although they later said it was 35-40 days when they had some scheduling difficulties).