Change of Plans

Well, I just spoke over the phone with one of the doctors, the interventional radiologist to be exact.  He and my oncologist have talked over the last couple of days and have decided to try something else before going to the chemo treatments.  They are going to do more liver directed therapy similar to what I had done back in March and May.  They are going to use different drugs this time though called Y90.  You can read more on the procedure here.  This is not going to cure the cancer but hopefully shrink them, slow the growth or just provide some short term relief while we wait to try other things.  When cancer throws a curve ball, you sit on it and wait patiently before you can hit it out of the park.  :) 

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Cancer Really Does Suck

Well we got the results from the scans and it wasn’t what we were hoping for.  The tumors have grown and it seems like there is more of them.  Obviously this is unwelcome news.  The doctor thinks the next step is chemo therapy.  None of the immunotherapy is working so we are going to try a completely different approach.  This is a tough one because it seemed like the tumors were changing but that doesn’t seem to be the case.  I am still trying to figure out my thoughts but it kind of seems numb at this point.  I am trying to stay positive and I still feel optimistic.  There are several types of chemo we can try.  The first one is an out patient infusion.  The other requires a five day stay in the hospital multiple times.  For the next couple of months we are going to try the out patient infusion.  If that doesn't do anything then we will move to the inpatient infusion.  The side effects are pretty well managed with some steroids except the hair loss.  We are going to start with the outpatient infusion.  The drugs are called Paraplatin and Taxol.  They do different things then the immunotherapy so hopefully that is good.  These drugs take about 6 hours to give so every three weeks it will be a very long day in the hospital.  I am headed to the Pac-12 championship game this weekend so we are going to wait until next Wednesday to start the first round of Chemo.

With all this being said, I am a fighter and am going to do everything in my power to overcome this.  We have overcome many trials before and we can do the same with this one.  Thanks for all the support and prayers.  We really appreciate them.

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