Bad News

It was too late to finish my blog last night. They finally took Curt down for surgery about 5:15. Angie and I were able to go with him to "pre-op". He had to wait in there until he went into surgery about 7:10. The doctor called me about 7:50 to say they were done and everything went well. They were able to put in the feeding tube using a scope. The doctor said to go back to Curt's room and he should be there in about 45 minutes. Well, he didn't get back until around 11 PM. They were waiting for Curt to wake up some more. Angie and I went home shortly after.
I wanted to get here early this morning (got here about 8:15). Curt got up for the bathroom and walked a "half loop" around this floor with me. Dr. Chui and a couple other doctors came in after 10. He said the MRI was hard to read, but they could see the tumor had grown. He looked in his mouth and said there was nothing else they could do. He could also tell that Curt's speech was getting worse because of the deteriation caused by the tumor on the left side of his face. We told him we wanted to return to Corvallis and he agreed. They will make arrangements for us to meet with Hospice in Corvallis on Monday. We told Dr. Chui that Beth's family was coming at the end of March, and he said Curt would be at his best right now. Right now Beth has plans to come next Tuesday. Later Curt said "the tumor won." We are listening to the OSU-Stanford basketball game and the Huffords just arrived for a visit. Another beautiful day outside. I'm not sure I will have much more to add today.