Christian's PPB Cancer Journey

We met with the orthopedic surgeon today and the plan is to get a PetScan this Wednesday and if everything looks ok and there are no changes that would complicate doing surgery then surgery will be this Friday. If he was to stay in the cast it could be for atleast 8 months and there is no guarantee it would heal properly and he may need surgery anyways. What he has is called a pathologic fracture. The tumor is in between the bone where the fracture is that is why it could take so long to heal on top of being compromise from radiation. They will make small incisions for the surgery, depending what it looks like they will either put plate and pins or a rod and pins. They will take out most of the tumor and send it out for testing see if there still live cancer cells and if any mutations they can target with therapy. We will be in the hospital for a couple days but he should be able to walk the day after. His main surgeon will be on stand by if any complications happen.