Finally - a doc that gets us!

An actual quote from our visit today: "the odds for any of these treatments aren't great, but they're the chance you have and you've got to take it." F'n A! That's what we've been trying to find. So in honor of that - here's one of my new favorite movie quotes:



Dr. Avital was great - told us what the story was with no BS but put forward a possible path to the cure. He blew us away with his honest approach and his aggressiveness. He basically said that at this point, my liver is still inoperable since the disease is spread throughout it. He laid out a plan using targeted liver therapies - either chemoembolization or Yttrium90 embolization - in conjunction with systemic chemotherapy. The targeted therapy will knock out enough of the liver tumors to go back in and cut out what's left, then we can go in and cut out anything else that rears its ugly head. He told us unequivocally to go pursue the Yttrium90 treatment at Maryland, and to possibly do it in conjunction with embolization.

So that's what it is. We will definitely keep in touch with Dr. Avital and his crew.

This week's treatment hasn't been too bad at all. I'm heading out for a day on the bay tomorrow, which should be excellent! I think my attitude toward the chemo has changed a bit from all the consultations we've had in the past few weeks. I had hoped to be done with it and onto something more now, but that's obviously not in the cards. Absent that, it's time to suck it up and gut out some more treatment. Today's visit was very good. We're both glad to have met a doctor - a surgeon no less - who is aggressive and is willing to look past the "standard of care" and toward more experimental therapies. Good stuff!

Thanks again for all the thoughts and prayers! Please keep them coming - especially for wisdom in this time of transition. Stay tuned for what should be some interesting months coming up!