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October 11, 2006

Latest Scan - A New Beginning

Saw the doctor today and as usual it was a couple of tense days waiting to get the latest cat scan results. My blood pressure was 155/88 so I guess that tells you something. As usual I had my questions in mind, based on what the results were, and as usual I expected replies like "I don't know" or "We don't know". And, as usual the doctor came in and his opening remarks shot down my whole preparation. His opening line, "We're going to give you a break from treatment." Say what????? Okay, here's the low-down. The cat scan was still showing no new growth and everything is stable (they forgot to say anything about my kidney stone). He felt I deserved a 3 month break, so will cat scan again in January. If the lesions have grown we would probably start again with just the anti-bodies. Thanks to my help and 999 others, the experimental drug has been approved by the FDA so it is available to everyone now. I guess that means it works. The bad news in all of this is he said that sometime in the future, be it 3 months or 3 years I would have to have a second round of full chemotherapy. Not something you really want to hear. After 13 months of this I kind of felt like a lost puppy with not making my 2 a month trips. But, I do have to go in once a month and have my port flushed out. I guess for the next three months I'll just write one entry as I do want to keep this open. One other interesting point from people reading this (I always wonder how many). I was contacted about a new cancer magazine, CRM, and they want to use excerpts from my diaries in a blog column. Of course I said yes. I may be forgetting something, but this seems to bring everything up to date. Soooo, good health to all of you until we meet again along this dusty trail of life.

Posted by Robert on October 11, 2006 11:32 PM | DIGG | del.icio.us | furl