Scan Results

Well it has been about 6 months since I started the Y90 treatments on the liver.  The hope was that they would slow the growth or reduce the growth of the tumors there.  I just met with the interventional radiologist and he seemed to be more than pleased with the results he has seen with this treatment.  I don't remember his exact words but he basically said that he doesn't think he has ever seen a response like this to this type of a treatment.  The tumors in the liver have been reduced by more than half and he thinks they are still shrinking.  This is probably some of the best news we have received in a long time (2 1/2 years) and so we are running with it.   

It wasn't all good news though.  He brought up some spots on the lungs again which they have gone back and forth on for a while now and also something about one of the lymph nodes.  These are things we will discuss with the oncologist in the coming weeks to see what he thinks and where to go from here.  I will probably have what is called a PET CT scan which is a full body scan that looks at cell activity.  This will give us a better look at the lungs and the lymph node.  Once we have done this, we will figure out a new plan and move forward with it.

Obviously we have always had this hope that things would work out and the news about the liver is so good.  You only have 1 liver and if that doesn't work then you are in some serious trouble.  We will continue to fight and hope and have faith that things will work out for the better.  We are grateful for the support everyone is constantly providing.  Thank you all!

On another note, I have started feeling much better.  To that point I have been playing a little pickleball every now and again which has been great.  We also did a pretty good hike yesterday, only 3.5 miles but it kicked my butt pretty good but I was able to do it and feel good.

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