Sunday, February 22

Tomorrow Stu will be admitted to the hospital for an arteriogram (dye injected into the arteries to look at the blood supply to the tumor), and possible embolization (clotting off the feeding vessels so that there won't be as much blood loss during the surgery). The arteriogram is scheduled for 8 am, and will take up to 3 hours. He will be admitted after that. He is in good spirits tonight and seems to be handling things very well. He says he really just wants to be "darted", and wake up 3 weeks from now and have it all over. I don't blame him. His mom and dad arrived from Iowa today, and his older brother, Greg arrived yesterday.

So, the "stumor", as Stu calls it, will be history in a just a few days. He is worried that his head will look ugly when his hair is shaved....

Deb