Surgery Tomorrow

After a great weekend at home, we are back in NY for the surgery. Nick passed all the pre-op tests today and we must be in the prep area at 6:00am tomorrow morning. The surgery should start about 8:00am and according to Dr. LaQuaglia the surgery will last
“ as long as it takes to do a good job”. Following surgery, Nick will be sedated for several days and will likely be in the hospital for 7-10 days including some possible ICU time. Dr. LaQuaglia uses a technique that “peels” the tumor off the organs and vessels leaving no “margin” or residual behind. The goal is to remove everything he sees and then zap the rest with chemo, radiation and the antibody.

We can’t wait to put this step of the treatment behind us!! We hope and pray the surgery is a success and Nick can then move on to the next step in his treatment.

I took a few days off from updating the blog but I promise to update it once we know something tomorrow. Thanks again to everyone for all their support, prayers, meals, cards, gifts, e-mails, bats, balls, pictures, autographs!!! Etc. Nick really lights up when he gets them. We recently received an autographed picture of the governator saying “To Nick”…and signing his name…In addition, both Derek Jeter and Jason Giambi sent Nick signed baseballs. Mark Ellis (of the 4 time world champions) sent Nick an autographed picture with Nick in it from “take the field with the A’s” Nick really loves the engraved real professional bat he received from one of our Little League friends who played a long professional career. All these things are really helping him cope with the situation!! THANKS!!!!!