Rowing the boat

We went on a boat ride with Mamacita today in Ann Arbor. It was so fun. Jett was singing row your boat the whole time. He really liked seeing the ducks and swans. They have a trip you can go down rapids that we are going to take him on in a few weeks.

Jett rowing the boat


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Boat Ride

Jett on the boat with Daddy


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Mamacita on a bike 😁

We had so much fun in Chicago last weekend. I'll post pics soon. Here's a teaser. Viva and Kerisi riding bikes on Lake shore drive. Viva hadn't riden a bike in 30 years. She did awesome and loved it.




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Mamacita visits!!!

We are so happy to have Kerisi's mom here to visit. She has been very busy playing with Jett :). He loves her so much. We are going to Chicago this weekend to show her around and Kerisi is going to a conference. Should be lots of fun.

Grandpa

So Jett and I are home now. We left yesterday. We would have loved to stay longer but my work has ready been so understanding and staying longer would be pushing it. Hopefully we will be back soon. And hopefully next time we can steal Kerisi away. His program isn't so understanding ;).

So the final pathology came back yesterday of the brain tumor. The original pathology was a frozen section that was done intra-operatively so it wasn't as complete as the results that are in now. Anyway the final pathology is that the brain tumor is a high grade glioma. What that means is the cancer is a primary brain cancer and it's of high grade type which in a nut shell is not good. They have transferred him to another hospital...the CPMC hospital on California street. It's specialty is cancer so they can do all the necessary testing there and the oncologist is there. It's also where they do all the treatment for cancer. The oncologist has now informed us that the cancer will be able to be treated with chemo and radiation. He thinks the prognosis is between 3-4 years. Grandpa is aware of this and now if course is ready to get back to work. We will see how it all pans out. Overall he is doing much better. He passed his swallow study so he is finally able to eat. He is getting stronger every day and hopefully will be able to go home by the end of this week :). Please continue to pray for him and my family. Everyone really appreciates all the support and love you all have been sending. I'll continue the updates. Much love.




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Grandpa and Jett

Best Friends...




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Baseball

This is at the Giants game when Jett was 6 weeks old

Biopsy Results

Today was a good day! Grandpa was doing better than we have seen him since this all started. They started giving him steroids last night to help with the swelling in his brain. He started talking and comprehending so much better today. I spent about 2 hours straight this morning going over everything with him. He wanted me to tell him what's been happening from the start. He is so incredibly smart. He was understanding everything that we were talking about and speaking in medical terms about what the doctors have been thinking and saying about his diagnosis. He is very happy that he is surrounded by all of his family and that he has so many amazing doctors taking care of him.

So he had his biopsy today and be results are that the tumor in his brain is a metastatic adenocarcinoma. What that means is that he has cancer somewhere else in his body that has spread to his brain. The good news is the brain lesion is treatable with direct radiation which will happen soon.

At this point we are waiting for the oncologist to come by and start their workup. There are many possibilities where the cancer originates from. It's an adenocarcinoma which is good in the fact that it is treatable with chemo. All we really know is that the road to recovery is going to be long and hard.

Here are some pics from today. Jett and grandpa are such buddies.

Another Update

So the roller coaster continues. Grandpa spiked a fever again last night so the doctors started to wonder if he was getting the right treatment. My aunt Lucia asked one of her colleagues who is an infectious disease doctor to go see him. Her partner ended up looking over the case and said the whole picture didn't make much sense and wasn't completely consistent with being HSV encephalitis or encephalitis at all for that matter. So they decided to do another MRI of his brain...this time with contrast. A walnut sized mass showed up on the scan. It's in the left temporal region of his brain. We don't know for sure what it is yet. They are doing a brain biopsy tomorrow. It is most likely a glioma which is a brain tumor. It could be either low grade or high grade which makes a big difference with prognosis. The pathologist is going to be there during the biopsy tomorrow so we will know right away. Grandpa started to wake up a lot more than he has been. In fact at times he is completely lucid and aware of the situation. He just got off the phone with my grandma and listening to them talk was the most precious thing I've ever witnessed. They were talking about when they first met and how happy they've been. He knows he has brain cancer and he's scared. We just have to pray its a low grade tumor. I'll keep everyone updated.




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Oh and by the way...

As you can tell from the photo in the last blog Jett and I flew out to SF to see grandpa. Kerisi wasn't able to come because of work. I took some medical leave and happen to go to a very understanding program luckily. Jett gave grandpa lots of kisses today.


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