So today was the first day that we were able to sit down with doctors who were familiar with the type of cancer I’ve been diagnosed with.  Not only familiar… but specialize in dealing with appendiceal cancers. First we visited Moores Cancer Center at the University of California San Diego.  Our meeting was with Dr. […]

Pretty uneventful day.  We are leaving for San Diego tonight at 8:00 pm for our two appointments tomorrow so some packing and prep for that.  Since regular life continues to go on… we had a check in day with our daughter’s school.  It was a “bring some lunch”, “meet up with the other parents” and […]

I got a phone call from Dr Barone in San Diego.  He’s one of the appointments we have on Friday.  He had just finished reading through my entire case and wanted to call me to give his opinion.  He began by describing just how rare and aggressive this type of cancer is (always nice to […]

Today we finalized two appointments with two teams down in San Diego.  We’ll be flying down there on Thursday night to meet with both of them on Friday.  We also reached out again to OHSU (who my original surgeon had referred us to).  We had called them on Friday immediately after I was given my […]

Well… The weekend was  v e r y  long.  Finding out on a Friday afternoon that you have cancer is really not the best day.  Most places have very nice message systems in place for receiving calls, and emails that we may have sent most likely weren’t going to get replied to until Monday.  We […]

Well… the website says it all.  On Friday, August 24th 2018 at around 12:15 pm… a general surgeon scooted his chair up to me and showed me a piece of paper that said……….  “diagnosis:  poorly differentiated mucinous adenocarcinoma with patchy signet ring cell features”………… There was obviously a bunch of other words on the page […]