99.5% sure we finally have a proper Diagnosis SEE POST OF 7/30 for the stage 2 update

 

 

Today was hopefully the last in a long list of tests to determine the diagnosis and treatment for Corban.

He does have ALCL Lymphoma. In the PET/CT scan, it was revealed that the cancer has spread into his body, but just on one side of his body. So the really good news is that it appears to be STAGE 1. The bad news is, it is still cancer. 

We still have to wait for the results of the bone marrow and spinal fluids labs (which were taken today), but hopefully they will be clear of cancer cells. Corban was so funny when they sedated him. He was slurring words together, and he asked me why I had four eyes when he woke up. He was rearing and ready to go home, but we all needed to sit with him and talk to him about the final results of this long mystery. Dr. Arminion told him that he had something called lymphoma and it contains cancer cells. He then told him that we need to treat those cells so that they go away and NEVER COME BACK!  This will be done with chemotherapy. 

When it was all over, he jumped into the wheel chair and wanted to do it all by himself. So he happily wheeled himself out to the hospital!

More updates when we know more.  He will start treatment within the next week.