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James has Wilms' Tumors (Update 7)

Yesterday James came home from the hospital to continue recovering from his surgery. I love the photo above because it shows what good spirits James is in and what a trooper he is. A few weeks ago, the surgeon operated on James's left lung to remove tumors and this past Friday she operated on his right lung to remove tumors there. The pathology of the left tumors showed all the tumors as dead or scar tissue, meaning that the chemotherapy or the radiation killed the tumors. We are hoping to hear that the tumors removed on the right lung will also be dead, which we will find out sometime in the next week. If all goes well and according to plan, April 10 will be our last cancer day. James's counts in his blood continue to improve now that we have completed chemotherapy appointments, and we are looking forward to soon being able to socialize more normally again. After this milestone, we will have appointments every three months to look for cancer since his cancer and his treatment ...