Sorry for the long absence from the blog. In general, when I don't write I am either very busy and/or everything is going great. In this case it is both.
Julie is doing exceptionally well with tolerating her chemo. You can see that Dr. Hosford is encouraged. Julie's breathing has improved to the point that they are saying we can give up the oxygen. We are holding on to it -- kind of like a lifeline. They are talking about more chemo treatments than originally. I think the general game plan is to give a person as much chemo as they can tolerate. The doctor is talking about six cycles. Each cycle is the full cocktail chemo, two lighter cocktails chemos and a week off. She has had 5 of 18 for you math majors.
The doctor wants to take a quick peek as she said to see how the tumors are doing between the current cycle of treatment and the next with a quick cat scan. We are wishing the tumors are doing poorly.
They also biosped the tumor in her "artifical breast." We assume it will be the same kind of cancer that they took out of her lymph gland. We don't the results or the options to deal with this 2.75 cm lump that everyone missed for five years of mamograms and ultrasounds.
We are all doing well. We enjoyed a visit from my son last week. He was here, then puff he was gone. We did alot around the house and then was gone. A rock garden in the back reminds me he was hear and brings a smile everytime I walk outside. It was his gift to us. Sweet.
I am going out of town next week. Julie is coughing up stairs, which distracts my line of thought. I will be gone Monday morning (4 am) until late Wednesday night. I hope you all take care of Julie. It is a test for my trip to Wyoming the next week and my trip to Oman the following month. Maybe one more trip to somewhere else ... I wasn't listening well when DR mentioned it. Anyway, let's concentrate on this week. I appreciate without measure all the help so far.
Eva and Suzanne are talking about coming by on Tuesday. Good on ya, as they say in Australia.
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