Husband at home: Day 7 ~ The Oncologist

He's doing SO much better than just a week ago... eating small frequent meals, snacking a bit and drinking his Gatorade. He even had one cup of COFFEE this AM.

We met with his PCP on Wednesday and he was really pleased with how quickly things had gone, he did B/W and Husband's CBC? (Glory? Complete Blood Count?) was continuing to go up, and he told me specifically, "we are going for a CURE here"

..and today... we met with the oncologist...

The highlights? (is that the right word when dealing with CANCER? I dunno.)

• Husband HAD Stage 2 T4 N0 Colon Cancer. aka Stage 2 because it had broken through the side of the colon and T4 because of the size and it was into the abdomen wall and N0 because out of 37 lymph nodes not ONE showed ANY cancer cells.  
• He is NOT a candidate for chemo because it had NOT effected the nodes and because Husband has something called microsatillite instability which is both good and bad. The chemo would/could only raise his % of being free and clear by 1% and at the expense of how nasty chemo is... just not worth it
• Stats of NOT coming back 5 Years 94% 10 Years 92% ~ he's just about the best you can get. Doc said he doesn't EVER see % past 80% so he was trying to reassure ME... this is VERY good news
• Husband could have something called "Lynch Syndrome" which would indicate that this was something he was genetically predisposed to get but we won't know that until meeting with a geneticist~ It wouldn't change any of the follow-up, would only help to explain why this happened and to set up a plan for SIL L, Bets and of course all the kiddies. If he DOES have it... looks like our own little ladies could have to start with colonoscopies at the ripe old age of "in their 20's" 
• If he DOESN'T have "Lynch Syndrome" there is no rhyme or reason as to WHY and again, it won't matter RE his follow-up care anyway
• The tumor (5.5cm x 3.5cm x 1cm aka a little bit wider than a chicken nugget) was a "slow growing" and not "aggressive" as we had originally heard it could be

He was very encouraging that the % and stats were in our favor. That we caught it very early and he wants to do a lot of after care, follow-up and catching it at the very VERY first sign IF it should rear its UGLY head again.