Another Round

Well, bad news: another round of chemo; good news: it's Christmas time at the hospital - snowman, poinsettias, and holiday scrubs. Aaron went in to see the doctor on Monday and ended up having to stay for his fourth cycle of chemo. The CT scan showed that he still has a tumor that is about 4 cm long, but it is still shrinking. To make sure that there is nothing still living inside it that could reproduce more cancer cells, Aaron will be doing one more cycle consisting of the five 4-hour days and two quick treatments on the following two Mondays. In a couple of months, the doctor may choose to do surgery up at OHSU to remove anything that might be remaining. He sounded pretty confident that Aaron would have to do the surgery, but you never know, so keep praying!