Tuesday afternoon I'm driving home from work and Terry calls. She's says she'll wait while I pull the car over and stop driving. This is bad news, I can tell.
Terry says she received a call from Dr. Sanchez with the final pathology report from Friday's biopsy. Remember there were 5 needle sized tissue samples taken from Steve's tumor in his brain? Two were checked during the actual procedure. The other three were checked afterwards and we weren't expecting the results until the end of this week. The results are needed before any radiation or chemotherapy can be started. It would also give us something to go by while we are trying to read about options for Steve's course of treatment since everything depends upon which type of cells are growing and how aggressively they are growing.
The bad news: the tumor is grade 4.
Not a 2 as Dr. Sanchez believed during the biopsy.
Not a 2 which would allow a longer life.
Now we are back to the very bad, aggressive tumor. The kind that requires treatment in clinical trials because the current form of treatment only allows most people to live 12 to 14 months.
The kind that only 6% of people live beyond 3 years.
The very bad kind.
We are deflated.
Flat.
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