Joey's surgery has been scheduled

Dear Friends,

We found out a few days ago that Joey has been approved for the chemotherapy medicine, Avastin!

Joey will be undergoing surgery on Monday for placement of his port (to facilitate ease of infusing the Avastin). Because Avastin works against the formation of new blood vessels, we have to wait two weeks between the surgery on Monday and his first chemotherapy treatment to allow for complete healing of the port site.

We don't know exactly when his surgery is on Monday because the schedule is not decided until the night before. You can pray that Joey get an early operating room time so that he will not have to go without food or drink for too long on Monday. You can also pray that he will not freak out when undergoing anesthesia like he did last time.

Thanks,
Jane