So Thursday of last week I had my major surgery to install my port and remove my right testicle. I didn’t put the exact date in the last note because I was sure when it would be. I think most people probably found out from Facebook that I had surgery anyways. Since then I’ve been in recovery. Very little walking, lots of meds, and some pretty painful muscle issues. You can see picture of my wounds here on my website, on Flickr, or on my Facebook. So, any who I have received two main pieces of information in the last few days.
For starters the pathology has come back on the removed right testicle. The results of those tests have are strange to say the least. I found this news hard to believe but every word of it is true. The results show that my entire right testicle was ONE LARGE TUMOR. The entire testicle was 100% cancer cells. My (normal, Louisville) Urologist was shocked. He had never seen or heard of anything like this before. Testicular cancer works like breast cancer. You feels for lumps, you have ultrasounds and the like to look for the shadows of objects that could be tumors. The reason that I had almost no warning this time my cancer developed, no lumps or shadows on my ultrasounds, was because my entire right testicle was a tumor! Somehow as my cancer developed this time, it replaced every cell in my right testicle with a cancerous one or turned every cell into a cancerous one. Trust me we’re all just as confused on how that could work as you are. My Urologist has gotten in contact with the specialist at IU (The doctor who treated Lance Armstrong, who I went to Indy to see) but no word on that yet. However, this will not affect my chemo. It will still go on as planned. The problem with this is that besides the testicle, every piece of muscle tissue, etc that was taken out in my surgery contained cancer cells. This means that despite earlier tests there maybe microscopic cancer cells in my liver, brain and blood stream. Chemotherapy should kill anything out side of the testicle now, but it is very likely I will have to undergo several cycles of radiation after I finish chemotherapy.
Secondly, I met with my doctors to plan when I will begin chemotherapy. I also found out that because I cannot have Bleomycin (the med from the first time that could destroy my lungs) again that I will have to take a replacement medicine. This replacement medicine has to run 24 hours a day. That means I will have to be admitted to the hospital for the entirety of the first week of every one of my 3 weeks cycles. There was some talk that I would start chemo this Saturday, but now the date has been moved to Monday June 29th. Yes, that is this Monday, and yes I’m just ecstatic about it, but I take it as it comes. So this coming Monday morning I’ll be getting up bright and early to be admitted to Baptist East in Louisville and begin my chemotherapy. Its finally time to get this show on the road folks so the sooner I get it started the sooner I get it over with.
So, thats where I am right now. I’ll be blogging and showing pictures and video as much as possible through out this whole experience. Hopefully, I’ll get a redesign and fall into some sort of groove soon. Thanks for all the support. 
what shocking news about the entire testicle being a tumor! that blows my mind a little…can’t imagine how you must feel. good luck, my friend, i know you’re strong!