This past Tuesday, I drove to Stanford Cancer Center to
receive the results from my CT scan. It is an unnerving time – the days and
then hours leading up to that appointment. Your mind is filled with
possibilities of what the news will be and all you can think is, “will my life
radically change today?”
Three weeks earlier when I met with Dr. Fisher, I told him
that I had an explanation for all of the pains in my body (of course I had
determined that none of the pain was related to tumor growth). He looked at me
and laughed. He responded that while he
appreciated my optimism, he believed that much of the pain was due to tumor
growth. However, he told me that we could stick with my theories until we got
the results from the CT scan.
Well – on Tuesday – I got the laugh! Apparently, my cancer
has remained stable and a couple of tumors may have even decreased a little.
Wow. We really weren’t expecting that news. I had mentally
prepared myself for ramping up my efforts to seek new treatment options. But –
I’m not there yet. Instead of gearing up for what was sure to be a rough road
ahead, I got another infusion of my wonderful PDL-1.
It was a good day. More than that – it made it a good week.
Sometimes unexpected news can be the best news there is…
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