Today was treatment number 2. Boy, my brain hurts from learning so much! 'That damn lump' is disappearing, and with it dwindle the risks of losing my life to this disease. Breast cancer's favorite places to metastasize are the brain, liver, bone and lung. On October 29 I had a chest x-ray. Lungs were clear. Same day, bone scan. Same result. Bones are clear. Unless you count that arthritis in my neck! PET scan on Nov. 9 proved it is not in the liver or the brain. Nov. 9 was the darkest day yet. For some reason I thought it was in my liver. I had a liver function blood test that was slowly on the rise. That coupled with the fact my blood glucose level was high that day sent me right to liver metastasis. PET scan was clear. It showed the cancer in the left breast and the two lymph nodes. Right where we thought it was. Dr.Morel said there can be micrometastasis that are too small for the PET scan to pick up. That's why we did chemo before surgery, so we could tell the chemo was effective for this type of cancer. At the rate of speed this is working, he feels there is no chance there is anything else lurking in there the PET scan couldn't see.
Today Dr. Morel could not feel any inflammation around my lymph nodes, and the tumor is even smaller than it was on Nov. 15. So far the chemo has only made my color look like crap and made me tired. After the third treatment Dr. Morel will call Dr. Salm-Schmid to confer about the surgery. He is going to recommend I have all 8 of the chemo treatments then have surgery. The outcome would be no different either way, he just goes on a patient by patient basis with this stuff. We will see what happens now. Emily will use her family medical leave act at that time, and earlier if I need her after treatments. One day at a time, Sweet Jesus, that's all I'm asking from you.......................
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