Battle fought and WON!

Koen's surgery was on the 30th to remove the cancers tumor in his liver. It was one scary and long day for mommy, daddy, family and friends. This kid is one tough kid though! Even when he was in pain he would say NO, but we could tell he was cause he's heart rate would start rising along with his breathing. He barely shed any tears, left the hospital in only 5 days and is already walking, playing, laughing. When I think back to my c-section, I am just AMAZED. (I could barely walk at the 5 day mark) I couldn't be more proud of him! The first pictures are of Koen before surgery enjoying some love from his papa, nana, uncles, aunts and cousins! He was really loving playing with little bouncy balls with papa before surgery (although I'm sure the nurses are still finding them, LOL) Then here are pictures of this nasty thing that he fought against! I realized these are gross, but I find them very interesting. So in advance sorry for the grossness!

One of Koen's biggest fans!


Two of Koen's littlest fans, Left: cousin Kaylia, Right: Uncle Brycen






I had some other pictures I would have LOVED to included but my computer lost them, I'm so sad about it too. Cause there were some really cute ones. But oh well, at least I have these ones!

When they take a closer look at the tumor they cut it like bread, so this is a pic of one of the slices. "Ok, I'm going to try and explain this as best as possible" The bottom half of this picture is the good part of his liver (the part that looks like raw chicken) There is also either liver or scare tissue around the whole tumor. The black parts are where the tumor bleed out. The little white spot (which is smaller in this picture than the next but it is what used to be tumor but with chemo turned to good cells, tissue or sometimes bone. (depending on how it responses) The yellow spots are dead parts of the tumor and the red tissue looking spots are live tumor. So as you can tell the chemo medicine really work well and killed most of it. They were able to get all the tumor. So, pretty much we can say Koen is cancer FREE. He will go throw two more rounds of chemo just to make sure they got all the cancer cells and to insure this evil stuff is NEVER coming back.


This is the full piece of what they removed, They said it was the size of a tennis ball. They took the whole right lobe of his liver. They also had to remove his gallbladder.