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Christine here . . . . making my first contribution to the blog. My mom had her liver biopsy today and I got to stay in the room and watch the entire thing!! It was very cool. This biopsy was an ultra sound biopsy as opposed to the first biopsy (that came back inconclusive) that was a CT biopsy…this was much more accurate. I watched on the screen as the needle went in, followed a path mapped out by the ultra sound tech that went right to the lesion, took a sample, and came back out. We (the doctors and I) watched the whole thing real time, as it happened – so cool. I brought my camera phone in and took pictures before the procedure. No internal bleeding this time, phew. There were about ten people in the room during the procedure – nurse, two doctors, ultra sound tech, and some pathologists. Right after they took the cells they passed them over to the pathologists to look at to make sure we got a good sample and it’s not inconclusive again. The big answer to prayer was that there was no internal bleeding this time. Pop and Andrew held down the fort in the hospital room (far from the needles).

We had a GREAT team performing the biopsy – I took down their names so we can request them when we have to do this again next week (the clinical trial is going to require one more biopsy next week).

Oh, and Chemo won’t begin until they have “proof” – so probably not until next week.