Shawn Update:

Shawn and Erin met with the chemotherapist today. Shawn will have outpatient surgery on Saturday to have a port put in his chest. The medicine will go right into his bloodstream. He will have a medicine-filled pouch he'll carry with him (similar to a fanny pack). Tomorrow Erin and Shawn will attend a Chemo 101 class. A home care nurse will come by the house on Monday to hook up the chemo medicine to the port. After two hours with the nurse, Shawn will leave for his first radiation treatment. He will have to go to the chemo office every Monday for blood work, and see Dr. Huber every other Monday. Radiation will be administered Monday. The doctor did mention that with the FAP syndrome that Shawn has, he does need to have an upper GI scope every 3 months to watch the polyps in his stomach. Apparently the cells have shown signs of dividing but have not mutated (become cancerous) yet. He is on Celebrex right now to shrink the polyps.