When we found Out

March 26th, the day of the follow-up... I met with the specialist and he told me that the results of the tests proved it to be cancer and that everyone was surprised by this - mostly me. So they gave us a general over view of what was going to happen... we took in a lot of information but they tried not to go into too much detail. So I have a ton of appointments schedule. It seems as though they don't think the shortness of breath has to do with the cancer (it might but they're not sure).. so the plan is: testing my brain and body to see if there are any masses anywhere else, do a series of breathing tests, and other random testing. Then they are going to put me through radiation and chemo (at the same time), which he thinks will be 5 days a week for a month and a half, but I haven't sat down with those doctors yet and they won't know for sure until after all the testing.. so after the radiation/chemo (which they are going to try to shrink the mass as much as possible) they are going to do surgery. This surgery is very risky. I have a thymic carcinoma (thynoma), which is behind my breast bone in between the heart and lung ontop of a major blood vessel (vena cava). Another possible complication (that they won't know until they get in there) is if the mass has grown into the vena cava; if it has then they will have to reconstruct my veins inorder to take out the whole mass. Everyone is trying to stay optimistic, which is all we can do right now.