Biopsy day

 Cleve went in for his biopsy today. What an incredibly exhausting day of just sitting around. We checked into the hospital at 11:00. Cleve was finally taken back for his procedure a little before 2 o'clock and returned to the room a little after 3 o'clock, finally leaving the hospital at around 4:30. Dr. Palmer, who is an interventional radiologist stuck a rather large needle through the bone of Cleve's sacrum. This required a little tapping with a hammer....bleh! Cleve was on medication so he was awake through the procedure but little memory of it. He is recovering in bed next to me as I speak. He is a little sore but doing well. And now, more waiting. We should hear from the pathologist in a day or two with the results and the stage of his disease.  We also made an appointment up in Portland with a Dr. Curti to discuss possible clinical trials we may be able to participate in or what types of treatment they can offer Cleve. We are also looking into having a consultation with the MD Anderson cancer center in Houston, Texas. It is one of the leading melanoma research centers in the U.S. Busy times ahead of us. I will keep everyone posted, in the mean time, keep your fingers crossed that the cancer did not metastasize into the sacrum. Lets just hope that the lesion is from an unknown trauma or something simple like that.