Just want to remind you to take extra care of yourself too during this stressful time. You need to rest well and eat well and have some fresh air outside to have both physical and mental strength to take care of your husband. We caregivers often forget how important that is. Best of luck to you guys!

So happy for you. This just made my day!!!

Don’t be so hard on yourself. Your husband is a very lucky man to have you by his side as a strong advocate. All of your questions are great legit questions. I do hope your doctor or doctor’s staff will be answering them. (Pls do share if you get them) One way or another, he will be NED after surger...

Sending you good vibes!! Wish your husband a very successful surgery. pump or no pump, either way, he will be doing great.

Hi Lydia,Our oncologist wants to put my husband on maintenance chemo because of his extensive liver involvement. He had 12 lesions in the liver. Our oncologist strongly believes doing maintenance chemo can minimize the chance of recurrence especially for the most critical first two three years after...

My husband’s last oxi dose was in May 2017 and he is still suffering neuropathy in his feet, especially his toes. I highly recommend getting a shiatsu foot massager machine with heat. You can get one from Amazon. With daily foot massage with that machine while watching TV or reading, his foot blood ...

Thank you all for the links and inputs. Knowledge is power. My husband is currently on maintenance chemo Xeloda + Avastin. Because of his extensive liver involvement at dx, his oncologist wants him to be on this chemo combo hopefully to minimize the chance of recurrence. I am wondering should we sug...

Hi Teacher 2017,
Yes, I hate scan time. We are all in this together. You are in my prayers. Sending you best luck. By the way, our kids are about the same age. My two boys are 10 and 14.

My husband’s colon tumor was quickly cut out only days after his colonoscopy because it was blocking. Our liver surgeon prefers surgery early and takes cancer out before liver gets damaged by too much chemo. He managed to remove everything including one deep inside segment 5. To preserve more good l...

Paola, Please power through it. It was definitely hard but with a lot of encouragement, my husband finished it. He did 6 cycles before and 6 cycles after liver surgery. With one sever diarrhea episode with fever after cycle 4 which made him hospitalized for 3 days. He did it total 12 cycles and have...

liver expert is a liver surgeon with GI Oncology department in any top ranking cancer hospitals who focus only on operating liver mets from GI cancer. MSK is definitely one of the best but we are far from New York. Any of the top ranking cancer center has those liver surgeons in GI Oncology Departme...

mpbser, I just want to let you know as a fellow wife supports husband on this journey, I admire you. I read many of your posts and you inspired me to post our story. The level of study and research you have done to help your husband make the best decision really touches my heart. And your posts also...

My husband had 10+ live mets at dx, and our Oncologist didn't want to count them after lesion number 10. The biggest one was 7.9 cm. He did a MRI post 6 cycles of chemo to prepare for the liver surgery, that MRI report says there were 12 lesions, 8 on the right lobes, 4 on the left lobes and biggest...

Hi mpbser, Thank you for starting this post. We would love to learn others experiences about different ways of handle liver mets. My husband had 10+ liver mets at dx September 2016, Liver resection January 2017, no pump, our cancer center doesn't offer pump ( one of the top ranking teaching hospital...