This may leave more questions than answers for everyone, but the appointments at Moffitt were not exactly what we expected today. We were in the first appointment of the day with the radiation oncologist going over what to expect during treatment along with a few other things when the medical oncologist-not scheduled to meet with us until 4:00 pm-came (nearly burst) into the room. Sort of reminded me of those movies where a para-legal or someone busts into a courtroom right before a final witness is called or something. He had reviewed the scans we had from Indiana and he is pretty sure we're dealing with stomach cancer and not esophageal cancer. What? He proceeded to show us on the scans how he was coming up with this and we were able to see that the majority of the tumor is, indeed, located in the stomach. At one point he looked at Dad and asked, "How are you eating?!?" We all had a good laugh at that. I thought, "Well, I suppose one bite at a time but maybe he's figured something else out that nobody else knows about." Obviously, his point was that this tumor is no joke when it comes to size. He and everyone else at Moffitt today were amazing. Not sure on spelling their names so I'll leave them nameless for now.
This shuffled things around a bit, as it will now be a different surgeon we need to talk to. The treatment will also be a bit different, as they would not do radiation prior to surgery. They are attempting to get us an appointment with the surgeon tomorrow to get his or her take on things. What IS scheduled tomorrow is an ultra sound to get some more confirmation so they can properly stage it before proceeding with treatment.
Lastly, we met with a nutritionist to cover some basics for how Dad can maintain as much weight as possible. Lots of protein was the gist of that conversation. They may end up putting in a tube so that when he can't eat much liquids can go straight in to the stomach.
That's it for now.
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