June 5, 2014-Thursday. Today Bill had surgery at McKay-Dee hospital
today. A few weeks ago Bill complained of a sharp pain on his back.
When I looked he had 2 sores, I told him to get into the dermatologist.
They did biopsies which showed melanomas. They sent him to a general
surgeon Dr. Jordan on Tuesday June 3 and surgery was scheduled June 5.
Bill went to the hospital at 7:30 am for sentinel node mapping. I was
scheduled to work 11-7:30. Bill had gone into surgery at 10:30 after an
hour I checked with OR and they informed me that they had to go in and
take lymph nodes on both axillary sites. They had another 1.5 hrs and
were just starting on Bills back. After surgery I spoke with Dr Jordan
he said it was unusual for nodes to have cancer on both sides of arm
pits. We don't know what kind of cancer it is or the stage until the
pathology report comes back. I M not over reacting yet till I have more
information. In the meantime, Bill recovered with some nausea and
vomiting. I brought him home and he slept for awhile. Informed the kids
and parents of Bills status.