October 9, 2019 - "Further Updates"

Hello Angels. If you are receiving this email, you are one of the angels that God has put in my life. I've left out everyone's address for their privacy. Should you not care, I may opt to send to a long list of folks who don't know each other right now but may wish to contact each other in the future. I promised everyone (friends, loved ones, family) that I'd update as things got clearer. I realized, that I've been unclear due to my not understanding that each specialist I've seen is viewing from their perspective. The biggest picture is not even in yet. In fact, the sit-down (that I may have mentioned) is not with the whole team, but rather as I see them one after the other. So far, I've seen a thoracic surgeon and a pulmonologist who did a biopsy on this lung mass last week. There will be at least a couple more. 

The biopsy showed (and concurs with the CT Scan, PET Scan, and Lung Perfusion Test) Stage IIIa lung cancer. Non Small Cell, which is the least aggressive of the two main types. It has migrated (note: NOT metastasized, meaning not gone outside the right lung) Within a week, the TN Oncology people will be calling to set up my next consultation. All these professionals I've been seeing are in the same group of TriStar Group (I've been to every one of their facilities for all these tests) and are part of the "team" I misunderstood I'd be sitting down with. They'll have access to all the test data, pictures, and samples taken last week. Everybody is very hopeful, myself included. 

I hope this email hasn't shocked you or made you upset, but I have promised to share the ongoing saga. I'm sure I'll be on the phone with many in the coming weeks, but I wanted to start by keeping my promise to update and figured a group-email would work best. I like to be able to edit myself, after reviewing what I've written, anyway. It's my thang.

Even though I don't care who knows this, I won't be sharing it via social media. I'm appalled at the personal stuff I see there, and won't be a part of it.

Love you, mucho.

Ken