Day 1 in Germany

At the Frankfurt University hospital, a very modern and major facility, we met with Professor Doctor Vogl at about 1pm. He has a whole wing for his use dealing with cancer patients. His procedure is to use an MRI to guide the insertion of a catherer into a vein in the groin area and then thread it directly to the tumor. In Jeannette's case, directly to her right lung. I watched in amazement the entire procedure. The machinery in the operating room is all space age and on a huge monitor I watched the catherer enter her right lung. He then injected chemo right into the tumor and lasered the vessels closed. I found this description on a web site which is more technical: "Professor and Doctor Thomas Vogel in Germany is using localized chemo therapy and intervention vascular oncology. Using chemo embolization a vascular occlusion of the tumor vessel occurs shutting down the blood supply to the tumor and creates a reduction of systemic side effects of chemotherapy as well improving the quality of life for the cancer patient while undergoing aggressive therapy." After the procedure, which took only 20 minutes, Jeannette was sent to recovery. Here is a picture of her in the recovery room. We then went back for a CT scan before being sent off. What a beautiful hospital as shown in this picture of Jeannette standing in the lobby of the hospital. We left the hospital with our driver and had dinner at a nearby sushi restaurant and then drove the 3 hours to the clinic. We were shown our room, which is very large and brand new with a huge flat screen TV, and went to sleep completely exhausted from a long and tiring day.