Thursday, June 6, 2013

Well okay, it wasn't exactly what I hoped for, but not too terribly bad either. Went to Stanford this morning.  The cancerous spots have grown, but very little. I'm thankful that there is no new growth anywhere else in my body. The growth was very minor from the last scan to this one, but the doc went back and compared it to the scan I had just before I started the trial. She said that when compared to that scan back in November, she could look at the two and still say it was basically stable. I can stay in the trial if the growth is under 20%, which it is. She also said that measuring the spots is very difficult, because it's not like measuring a perfect sphere, and the growth was only 2 mm. We did not want to abandon this drug too soon, so together we felt good about doing two more rounds to see how that goes. That means another scan in six weeks. Considering all my blood levels are doing so well and I'm feeling so good while on this drug, I went with it. I pray it is the right decision. We thought it would probably still grow in these next six weeks, but we also thought it would probably only grow a little. If we switched to yet another drug now, there is the unknown factor of how my body will react and again whether will it work. I spoke with my regular oncologist to get his opinion, and he agreed to go for two more rounds, but that he would start now figuring out the plan for what we can do next. I went ahead and started round 9 this morning. Please keep me in your prayers for guidance and healing. Thank you all so much for your support.

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Hello everyone--
I'm late with writing this, but I had my CT scan on Monday morning and am waiting for the results. The wait is never any fun. Please do keep me in your thoughts & prayers. I'll be sure to let you know when I hear.