While they were back to the school routine, I went and had my ultrasound. My friend & technician, Jerri, was there again to take good care of me and give me the lowdown on how my tumor was looking these days. I am happy to say it is shrinking! Here is a picture of what the tumor looks like for those that are curious:
Despite the fact that it looks HUGE in this picture where they zoom in close, it is about 3.4 cm by 2.6 cm. It is hard to imagine something so small causing such a disruption to life! While I am happy it shrunk, please pray that it shrunk enough that we can stay with my current treatment plan. Dr. O'Brien said a couple of weeks back that she was hoping to see it close to halfway shrunk and it is maybe only about a quarter of the way. My next chemo is scheduled for Monday, so I am hoping to hear what our plan of attack will be later this week. There is a possibility we will have to bring out some bigger guns for this tumor. Obviously, my priority is to get the cancer gone and never come back, so whatever is my best course for that to happen is what I want. BUT, I really, really didn't want to have to extend my chemo treatments or make them more aggressive unless we had to. It extends my timeframe of being done with all of this stuff, not to mention the fact that the 3rd drug they would add has increased side effects and is harder on the body. Please continue to pray that the answers are clear for how to proceed and that I continue to feel as good as I have.
Thanks again for your continued support and love!
Praying for you, friend! So glad it shrunk. Hope the kids had good days at school! Time is so weird, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteWe are so happy and thankful that the tumor is shrinking. We continue to pray!
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