Surgeon, Dr. Newman

We meet with Dr. Newman to discuss the mass and how to remove it. He, too is certain it is soft tissue sarcoma. He is also certain that we will take it out, do a course of radiation and I will be fine. He even stops himself because he doesn't want to go any further with any discussions until he knows for sure what we are dealing with. He is the first doctor to keep open speculation to a minimum. He could see that we were terrified and he didn't want to add to our stress until he was certain. We were aware of the theories but we would have to wait until they took it out and looked at it. Surgery was scheduled for 4/3/08.