We received the Ct scan results from last saturday and the Dr. compared them to to the scans from May before she started chemotherapy. The tumors are shrinking and so are the cancerous lymph nodes in the pleural lining. This is absolutely fantastic!!! It means that the chemotherapy is working.
Please understand though, that even though it is awesome news, this new, life altering predicament is not over. She will have to live with this for the rest of her life on a maintenance chemo program until there is a cure. It was really hard to accept that, but we all have to.
I have to tell you that we were worried and curious about why the Dr. was even ordering a Ct scan after only 2 rounds of chemo and when they called last week for mom to get the scan done we were informed that her Dr is leaving and moving out to California. Its going to be alright because he cares so much about all of his patients and he will keep in touch! I truly believe that he will. He gave his word.
Mom's new Dr is supposed to be really great too. It is just difficult to switch Dr's mid-beginning when you and the family are already so emotionally involved. It just adds to the fear of the unknown. It really throws us for a loop because here are with our Dr., the Dr. of our dreams who is saving her life and doing everything that is right and now it all changes.We haven't met the new Dr yet either. Its the unknown. He may even change the Dr's orders- we don't know. Each dr. has there own phlilosophy on how to treat cancer as each person is affected differently anyway.
It is unnerving when the Dr., whom we trust, tells us that he and mom's next new Dr. have different philosophy's on treatment of cancer. I did ask if we can just tell the new Dr that we want to follow the previous orders. It is a little premature I guess, but it all happens so fast. Our doctor has his last in clinic next thursday. The new dr we won't even meet for a month. Mom will have done round 3 and 4 before we meet him. To me, that is a little scary. Makes me anxious.
I am praying for the best and I hope all of you know that your prayers are working!!! I will post more tomorrow, but for now sleep is in order for me. Feel free to leave comments or questions.
God bless!
-Vanessa L H Reyes
I just read Cindy's article in the August Subpoena and was moved by how eloquent she wrote about her experience. It really touched my heart. Get well Cindy, I will keep you in my prayers.
ReplyDeleteCrystal Bannin
Thank you Crystal. It has been a quite an ordeal and we are embracing this new path in life with a positive outlook and lots of prayer. God be with you.
ReplyDelete-Vanessa