Surgery time is set

Woody's surgery is scheduled for noon on Friday (Jan. 23rd) at Vanderbilt. The surgery is supposed to take about three hours. He will come home on Saturday (Jan. 24th) as long as he is doing ok.

Dr. Holt said that Woody will be healed enough by February 11th to be able to start his Interleukin 2 treatments (reason that the surgery got scheduled so quickly). And, by removing this tumor and repairing the bone, there will be one less place (hopefully) for the Interleukin 2 to have to fight the melanoma.

Several have asked about his broken lower left arm--he will still be facing surgery on it on down the road.

I will attempt to update the blog from the hospital on Friday after we get into a room.

Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers!