December 9th 2008

We left Olathe around noon Saturday Dec 6th and spent the night with my sister in Wichita. Woke up early Sunday morning and was on the road by 4:30 am and arrived in Pearland, Texas around 4 p.m.. Our kids and my brother Ron and June's kids had decoratated the house for Christmans and in almost every rood there were family pictures of our kids, grandkids and Ron and Junes kids and grandkids. What a neat and wonderful idea. Ron of course is regaling us with the state of he nation, politics and the economy. Kaye has take my traditional place in the arguments so all I do is sit and listen to the wisdom that pores forth from those 2---June and I just eat food and watch.
Monday the did the nuclear cardio vascular testing and the nuclear PET. It was a long and arudous day. At least they kept me bust and uncomfortable, poor Kaye just sat and waited. Today they are going to do the Endoscopic Ultrasound (the basically put you under and then scope the throat and perform ultra sound to "re-state the cancer". We meet with the surgeon and anestitisist(sp) on Wed and then they deciced the next step which will proably be surgery.
If they perform the surgery Thursday thet indicate 6-8 hrs. Then I will be in ICU and on a feeding tube for 2-3 days and after that they try to get me back on solid food. As soon as I can tolerate solid food they will allow me to go home. They anticipate that will be 7-10 days. We will remain here in Texas until after Christmas to deal with any complications (a common one is leaking around where they re-attach the stomach to the esophagus) assuming no leaks we should be back in Olather around the first.
We have a mailing address but it is at my brothers lake hosue 13030 Wood Harbor, Montgomery, Tx 77356.
Our email seems to work okay so just email us and we will try to respond.
Will And Kaye