Monday, July 30, 2012

Scan results, short form, from hospital

Medium news, not good, not bad. Tumor is still sitting there, but hasn't spread. Oncologist thought it was bigger. Radiologist thought it was smaller. Not much size change. Bill is still considered incurable and this is still considered palliative care, meaning extending his life but not curing the cancer, is no longer the aim. Haven't read path report yet, but the bottom line was that while they were watching some areas, there was no evidence of new metastasis!!!!!

They can't continue the red devil as it is too dangerous to heart, and he needs one more week off before starting new chemo. Then a scan in a few weeks to see if new chemo is working.

The Oncologist here, Dr Thomas, wished the tumor were gone or noticeably smaller, but said on the optimistic side, it could have grown triple size if not for the red devil, so no way to tell.

He confirmed that there is  no test showing any chemo that works on Bill's kind of cancer, so that's a downer. But they are just throwing things at it to keep fighting to keep him alive. Cancer tumors like Bill's are so smart that they adapt to chemo and become immune to it! So they have to keep switching.

I asked if it he agreed with months to live versus years, and he said yes, he agree but he was acting upbeat and said, you know, all kinds of good things can come along, such as let's be happy that the tumor didn't grow rather than scared that it didn't get hurt as much as they wanted from the red devil.

In short, couldve been so much worse. We are rushing right now to go home, so I'll write more tonight after I read the radiology report which the Oncologist hasn't read all of yet. Talk to you tonight. Your prayers and love are surrounding us. Thank you sooooooo much, and I wanted to share this kind of good news of today's report, even tho Bill is being a brat about telling me to hurry up. hahahahahah Love you all! I have not proofread this, so don't hold typos against me. We're happy overall! Cdve been bettter, Cdve been much worse, tho.

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