James ringing the gong to celebrate the end of radiation Happy Thanksgiving! In our last update we shared that James’s surgery on his abdomen went well. The surgeon was able to remove James’s right kidney alongside a large tumor (weighing in at about 2 lbs) and additionally 11 small tumors in his left kidney. Afterwards James spent a couple weeks in the hospital with David recovering from the surgery. After recovering from surgery, James was well enough to undergo radiation for the remaining tumors in his lungs. The surgeon felt confident she got all the cancer from James’s abdomen, so we didn’t need to do radiation there, just his lungs. The doctors did a scan to map the tumors in James’s lungs so that they could make a plan for where to do the radiation. They fed the information about the tumors to a program and received a plan for the radiation so that it could get the visible tumors and also the likely small ones that we couldn’t see. The time in the radiation mac...