Cancer
Wooooooooo hard week – thank God it’s over. I didn’t write about it before because everyone we know didn’t know what was going on. Lee didn’t want family/friends worrying or traveling to visit him, so he didn’t say anything until after the operation and he was recovering. Lee’s relatives are amazing and will hop on a plane immediately if they know someone in NY is ill.
Lee had stomach cancer and just had 2/3 of his stomach removed at Sloan Kettering Hospital this week.
Last Spring after returning from vacation, Lee felt pain in his abdomen. At first, we thought it was something minor like food poisoning or a flu. Even after blood tests and other tests returned normal for months, I knew something was seriously wrong. Lee rarely gets sick and he never complains, so I knew something was really wrong and the tests weren’t showing it. After several endoscopies, a very small carcinoid tumor was found in his stomach (thank you to the Bay Ridge doctor who was persistent with endoscopies). We headed up to Sloan Kettering and got an amazing doctor. This week, Lee was scheduled for a hemigastrectomy (1/2 stomach removal), but they removed 2/3 of it as the doctors found a second smaller carcinoid during the operation.
Lee is doing well, looks healthy and is very grateful. He was out an about today with friends and doing normal things with very little pain.
Hugs,
marlene
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