Tentative Plans

So here's a quick update on the plan... Thursday morning (hopefully) they'll do the surgery to insert the ommaya reservoir. The surgery itself takes 20 minutes, but it'll be a couple hours when you count the ride down to pre-op and then recovery... The neurosurgeons don't want to give chemo right away, so Friday and Saturday I'll be hanging around healing up. I'll probably also get some scans done to check on the port and the flow of the cerebral spinal fluid (csf) to be sure the chemo can get everywhere I need it. Finally on Saturday or more likely Sunday I'll finally get chemo. I'll be getting a chemo called depocyt. The doc went through all the scary possible side effects, confusion, dizziness, loss of balance and encephalopathy (a very general term for your brain being FUCKED UP. In the end these things are pretty unlikely and my other options are even less tempting, so we are going ahead with all this. So after all that hopefully I'll be home on Sunday or Monday at the latest. Not ideal, but I guess I'll take it. Pls excuse all typos, I wrote this post on my phone and didn't have my trusty proof reader (Keith).