To keep you up-to-date on our happenings, Wednesday was a day of vegging. By that I mean Rob spent time visiting the grocery store (his favorite place) just checking out all the new stuff to eat while I did our laundry.
While Rob was away, we had phone calls from two Hungarians, who both happened to be in Rob's cooking class in Hungary. Both Susil and Lidia called to check on Rob and said they would each call back later. Rob was so excited waiting for their calls and had some nice catch-up time with them. Thank you Lidia and Susil for making Rob's day.
Since Rob is also a handyman of renown, his services as a plumber were called into play when Georgia's toilet stopped up and ran over. Off to the home supply store for the purchase of a plunger to unclog things. Of course, Rob found the latest and greatest plunger on the market and within minutes, everything was up and running, literally.
Everyone knows Rob's love of a good steak and Georgia made his wish come true in grand style. While at the specialty meat market, she found Kansas City beef steaks and Rob got to enjoy a Kansas City Rib Eye steak, along with the rest of us. Yummy to say the least.
Thursday was going to be quiet since we had yet to hear from Dr. Lei (pronounced Lay) about further tests. While Georgia and I were about to have pedicures, I received a call from Dr. Lei asking if Rob could be in Pleasanton by 3pm. Since it was already 1:30 pm when the call came in and we were 1.5 hours away from there, it took some doing and speedy driving to make it to the surgeons office on time. Dr. Lei also said that the chest x-rays and blood work Rob had the day before didn't reveal anything.
While Rob was driving to Pleasanton, I was on my cell phone trying to reach Dr. Krisztian (who just "happens" to be visiting from Hungary) to see if he could meet us there to translate all the Hungarian medical information. Walla, they were home at their hosts house and agreed to meet us by 3 pm.
Once at the doctor's office, we discovered the doctor was in an emergency surgery so we had some one-on-one time with the Gaspar family. Kind of took our minds off everything playing with little Adele and seeing our dear friends.
Rob's surgeon finally arrived, Dr. Krisz translated all the medical information and the doctor decided that since Rob had not brought slides of his biopsy, she would do another needle biopsy. This time Rob received something to deaden the site and it was over in no time.
The doctor told Rob she wanted to get him scheduled for a PET Scan as soon as possible but since it was already 5 p.m. it was too late to reach anyone to schedule it. She said her office would call us once it is scheduled and let us know when to come in.
From what we know, a PET Scan takes about 2 hours. That is, 2 hours lying on a hard table while a noisy machine rotates around you taking pictures of your insides. We understand this procedure involves injecting radioactive material which will travel to the cancer site(s). The hope is that the Scan will show where the cancer site(s) is/are so they can determine how extensive Rob's cancer is.
It is now early Friday morning and we just received a call from the Imaging office. Rob is scheduled to have his PET Scan on Tuesday, March 17th at Noon. That is 8 hours later for our Hungarian friends. Remember, America has already gone onto Daylight Savings Time, hence only 8 hours time difference instead of the usual nine hours. We will update you as we can.
Thank you one and all, for your faithful prayers, for your loving words of encouragement, and your emotional support. We pray God will bless you abundantly.
Carol and Rob
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