Surgery Scheduled

Travis has surgery next Tuesday to place an illeostomy until the fistula and abscess can heal. Unfortunately he has to keep the drain in as well. They are working on getting him set up with an anesthesiologist to discuss doing some nerve numbing to lessen the pain. We are happy with having a plan, but we've been here before and so there's also a lot of dread going into this procedure. When we started this 2nd round of cancer I never would've imagined we'd still be fighting so much. At one point they thought we'd be done by Christmas...of 2012, obviously they were a little too optimistic! From there it's just been a roller coaster of hope and despair. It's so hard to watch Trav fight this, I love him so much and I'm so grateful for all of his awesomeness! We are ready for Trav to get healthy so we can enjoy this remission!