No surgery next week

The doctors have postponed Jim's surgery until April 4. They did that because one of Jim's current chemo drugs, Avastin, doesn't do well with the healing process. As with starting chemo after his colon resection, when Avastin is involved it's important to make sure that either the surgery incisions are completely healed, or that before surgery, there's no Avastin in his system to inhibit healing.

Jim begins his new chemo regimen on Monday. Dr. Haid did not want him to go without chemo before the surgery since it's been postponed.

There's a chance that with Jim's new chemo regimen he can lose his hair. Of course, it's only a 30% chance, and Jim has a hell of a lot of hair. So maybe he'll just lose enough hair to be...Irish. Bwah ha ha ha ha. He's not concerned about losing his hair, but if he does start to lose it, he's going to have Rachel help give him a haircut so that he won't look "strange" to her.

Good things are happening. This new chemo regimen has the potential to completely shrink his smaller tumors until they are gone.