Greetings to all the Father’s reading this blog.  This Father’s Day has presented us with some very good news. We have my HIPEC surgery scheduled for July 15th!  The prayers we’ve been asking you for are being answered over and over.  Our latest prayer was to discontinue chemotherapy after the third round and to move to surgery as soon as possible.  Both of those things are happening.  Praise God! In this blog I will give you my version of the HIPEC surgery.  While I’m describing it you may think, “why would anyone be so happy about that surgery!”  When I’m finished I hope you understand the whole process.   Here is a three minute YouTube video of our surgeon, Dr. Nabil Wasif and his involvement in creating the first HIPEC department in the Mayo system: https://youtu.be/LNKicWrPUs0 To begin with, let me summarize the range of emotions we’ve experienced since November until now, seven months later.  The Emergency Room doctor said, “you’ve got a lot going on in there, and I don’t know wh

“If you want to make God chuckle, tell him your plans!” This blog will complete the steps it took to arrive at this diagnosis and I will discuss the value of a second opinion.  During my colon cancer in 2005, I never even considered getting a second opinion, because cancer is such a jolt to your senses, you just do whatever your doctor tells you to do. In Part I we left off prior to my Petscan, but by mid-March we still had no indication of cancer.  Honor Health had been ordering all the diagnostic labs and procedures since the onset of symptoms on November 19th.  On March 10th I received a notice in my Portal that results of a CT Scan were available.  We were having dinner at Mom’s and I pulled it up on my phone and started reading it out loud to Mom and Diane. As I was reading these medical terms I knew they were bad but I found myself googling words like; Infiltrative mass, concerning for carcinomatosis, upper quadrant ascites, nodular density concerning for metastatic disease!  Dia

For those of you that had a chance to listen to our favorite Christian song by Katy Nichole that I posted in Killing Cancer 2 you’ll recognize this blog title in the full lyric “I pray for your healing that circumstances would change.” In case you missed it::  https://youtu.be/YqHjjZz1Syg   Well, circumstances are changing and things are moving fast!  Last blog I asked for prayers that we might be able to stop chemotherapy after 3 sessions and reevaluate if it would be right to move straight to the HIPEC surgery.  Well, Monday those prayers were answered.  Our oncologist Dr. Kalmadi set up a meeting with Dr. Wasif at Mayo here in Phoenix  He is very likely the most experienced HIPEC surgeon in the Southwest.  We absolutely loved him and have made the decision that he’s our guy.   At the end of the meeting he gave us a plan.  We are finishing this third chemo session.  He will conduct another laparoscopic surgery this Friday, then we are going to do another MRI later today, both procedu