Like a virgin

Sorry for the delay on updating news about Ed's improvement but this is my very first post and I'm a little nervous...virgin blogger. Angie has been encouraging me to take over the blog for some time. She talks with her dad all the time but doesn't have the eyeball accounting of him that she did in the past since she travels frequently with her new job.

Ed is doing well. He continues to receive physical therapy to keep the swelling due to the lymphedema in his neck reduced. We're still waiting for a scan to determine if the clot in his jugular is "dissolved" and he needs approval to begin hyperbaric treatment of the exposed bone in his jaw.

The hyperbaric treatment involves giving Ed high doses of oxygen to heal an area in his mouth that was left "open" after oral surgery last fall. He can't receive the treatment until the Dr.s are pretty darn definite that no cancer cells remain. If there were remaining cancer cells, the addition of high dose oxygen would give the buggers a chance to multiply and spread quickly.