Thursday was a perfect day for baseball and Team Rowan entered NY ready to play ball. Their star player (doctor) entered the batters box, dressed in her Team Rowan shirt, and said, “Hap, give me a sign. You may want to call in a sub, but not today….lets play ball”

The doctors at Sloan performed an embolization on the Pelvic mass. Hap followed the four hour procedure with intense nausea; however, has not experienced high blood pressure issues at this time. Like the prior embolizations pain management is a must…but, pain is a good sign the procedure is doing its job.

As of Friday evening, Hap was able to switch to pain pills instead of IV. With his determination and no unforeseen complications Hap will be going home today.

The Interventional Radiologist had planned on blocking two veins/arteries leading to the pelvic tumor. The artery that supplies blood to about 40% of the tumor was completely blocked. The doctor was unable to do the other one, as originally planned. (Prior to blocking the arteries liquid is directed through them to see where it goes. On the second one, the liquid stayed at the butt muscle and not the tumor; therefore, could not be blocked.) After multiple scans during the procedure the source of blood to the portions of the tumor could not be located. The doctor is very optimistic and still expects to get good results from the blockage that was completed.

Hap came out of his procedure on Thursday and his first words were….”did we win?” He is scheduled for a scan in about thirty days to measure the progress…at that point he’ll get his answer.