Raven's story continues to unfold in strange and unique ways. We met with a surgeon, Dr. Drygas, last Saturday to review the case about Raven. The two previous ultrasounds had proved conflicting. The doctor wasn't interested in doing surgery based on the two different viewpoints, so he wanted to schedule a surgical ultrasound. He explained that the previous pictures were a snapshot, not dynamic. He needed to see how the mass looked as Raven's body was moved and turned, a video. A surgical ultrasound was scheduled for Tuesday, along with a bladder tumor antigen urine analysis. Raven wasn't to be put to sleep and it was a pretty easy test for him to last only fifteen minutes. Dr. Drygas said, with a high level of certainty, it still looked like TCC, which is transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder. He also said it was located in an area that was in operable (which we have heard before.) I was speechless and once again felt hopeless. We were given the same bad news about what to expect and how long he had before the tumor caused severe problems for him. We left totally wiped out and incredibly sad. We didn't have the results of the tumor antigen test, but Dr. Drygas was certain it would come back positive for the cancer cells. Last night we got a call from Dr. Drygas saying the tumor anitgen test came back and showed NO SIGNS OF CANCER CELLS. He was surprised and said it could still be TCC, but now he wanted to do a needle biopsy of the bladder to see if that came back positive for TCC. Raven went in this afternoon for the biopsy, which was minimally invasive and now we wait again for the results, which will be in sometime next week. Again our BOY says, "Don't count me out yet!" Stay tuned more to come next week.................
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