Rachel had her post-op appointment with the orthopedic surgeon today. He said that everything is healing nicely; the X-Rays taken after surgery looked good.

The pathology report is back. There were microscopic tumor cells, so it’s definitely good that Rachel had this surgery. The surgeon was able to remove all of the cancer and achieve “negative margins”, which means that no cancer cells are seen at the outer edge of the tissue that was removed – which is the goal of any surgery to remove cancer. That means that Rachel currently has “no evidence of disease” (aka NED), which are the words every cancer patient waits to hear. ❤

Next steps are continuing to heal from this surgery and at some point likely a couple more weeks of radiation, just to be safe.