hi all, i have not been on here much the last few months , but i thought i would give you an update, THE OZZMAN IS GOING UNDER THE KNIFE! on sept 22ed they are going to completely remove my right lung, chemo stopped working but as far as they can tell my lung is the only place the cancer is left. here is a copy and paste that my old lady has emailed out to people, has more info there..
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Well, sounds as if Ozz will be having his full pneumonectomy here before the end of the month (total right lung removal) the dates they have said are either the 19th or 22nd, they were double checking on scheduling before setting a for sure date.
We went to Iowa City today, discussed all the options with the doctor. The reason they have been pushing the bone marrow transplant mainly because it would shrink down the cancer that is in there. Unfortunately they can't even guarantee that it would work, it only has a 10% chance of "curing" the cancer and otherwise would just be shrinking it. Plus-they can not even guarantee his body would accept his stem cells and bone marrow after the chemotherapy, which they literally give you FATAL doses of chemotherapy and take you "to death's door" before they give you your stem cells and bone marrow to "bring you back" basically. That would include 2-3 months in the hospital, and like I said before, still at least a 90% chance would STILL have to do some lung surgery to remove the rest of the cancer!~??!!!
So we have opted for the lung surgery at this time. It will get rid of ALL the cancer that we know of in his body. Chances are the way his cancer has gone, it will probably come back somewhere else in his body. No one knows where, and can't guarantee anything with it. But at this time it would give him about the best chance I think. It will probably slow him down "a little bit", but knowing Ozz---- not a whole lot!!