Brief Report: More Tomorrow

Good news so far!

The Loopogram showed no cancer in Bill's urinary tract. This was the most dangerous of the two possible cancer issues, so what a relief!

The lymph node remains a question.

Dr. Torti wants Bill to come back in a few days, next week, I guess, and get a PET Scan. I thought what he had before was a bone scan, until the paperwork called it a Pet/bone scan, so then i thought he had a pet scan but he didn't--it was just paperwork wording. What he had before was a bone scan (also all clear).

ANYWAY, that was in case I had confused anyone.

So...he goes back, he gets this pet scan, which is considered the greatest of all scans, better even than an MRI!

And if the lymph node turns out to be cancer, they biopsy it, then they insert a needle into it and using radiofrequency, they COOK IT! Then it's gone.

One of the doctors suggested just watching the lymph node, but Dr. Torti said to them that he would like to be as "conservative" and aggressive as possible on all the monitoring, taking NO chances, so hence, we get this PET scan.

OH,CAN WE POSSIBLY EXPRESS HOW MUCH WE LOVE THIS NEW DOCTOR! I WAS DELIRIOUS with happiness when I heard he was going to take this kind of approach! EXACTLY what i wanted, and ALL I wanted!!!

Then Bill will get monitored every 90 days! For a year or so! A little better, wouldn't you say, than Duke's Doctor Wallbanger who said, yeah, dude, check by some time next autumn and we'll give you a little CT scan. (A CT scan is to a PET scan what bifocals would be to the Hubble Telescope.) What the DUKE DARNED DICKENS KIND OF DOCTOR WAS THAT??????

So we officially QUIT Duke today. We are permanently in the hands of Dr Torti from now on, never to see Dr. WalleyedPike again in Durham. It's official. We're in LOVE with Dr. Torti. MARRIAGE!

I'll write more tomorrow. We have some stories, but thank you for your thoughts and prayers for us, and we are SO relieved at how things are right now! Bill feels so good, gained 4 pounds, and his only problem is extreme fatigue, so they're going to check his heart with an echo thing, Im rushing now, cant see my notes to tell you more right now, so more tomorrow.

Love and sweet dreams and HALLLLLLLLLLLLLEYLOOOOOOOOOOOOYAAAAAAAAA!

B&B