It’s really good to hear from you. I hope everything continues to go relatively smoothly.
Glad you’re still with us!
Good to see you’re keeping your spirits up.
This is good news. I’m so glad to know things are going ok and I hope everything continues to go well.
Thanks for the update.
I, too, wondered how this was going for you.
Glad you’re on schedule for a comeback.
I remember this thread from way back when, and am glad to see you’re doing relatively well and are still with us.
I joined the cancer club myself last fall (stage IIa breast cancer) and even though I have an excellent prognosis, it still majorly bites.
The funny (funny:strange, not funny:ha-ha) thing is that the biggest hassle ( as I said upthread) is the uncertainty. I’m just finishing a chemotherapy pulse today, those are 5 days of chemo, 23 days off, so it’s not too bad. I see the folks at my doc’s office in a week and they’ll look at my blood test, so I suppose that does take a little bit of the uncertainty out of the picture. Thanks again to all…
Well shit, there’s apparently something on or in the site of the tumor that was removed. at least that may be the case as was seen from my latest MRI at the end of Marchc. I go in today to see my radiologist to see if it’s new or growing and whether some new radiology is warranted. Chemo will still continue on a once every 28 days schedule, but at least this time with the doc I get to see the imagery and ask questions.
Thank you for coming back and updating us! I keep an eye on this thread and wonder how you are; I hope whatever they find is easily dealt with.
Let us know what the doc says. I also hope what they find is something minor.
Well, got a sit down with the doc and he says it’s a little newish growth about the size of the last joint of pinky finger. It’s malignant but fairly well contained, so in two weeks he’s going to put it into his “circle of death”. It’s going to be a one-time well concentrated radiation treatment just for this little fucker. We’ll see how that works with a new MRI in about five weeks. He’s farily confident and it was nice for me to see the imagery and have a one-on-one Q&A that took away some of the uncertainty that bothers me. So not too bad a day all in all. Onward!
Sounds like a solid plan! Now to make 14 days fly by.
It really is amazing how they can target radiation. I look forward to hearing they zapped that thing into oblivion.
It’s good to have a doctor that’s got a positive outlook! Good luck!
StG
If your doc were serious, he would be threatening it with THE COMFY CHAIR! 
Seriously, things do seem to be looking up for you; keep buggering on!
Well shit, my appointment for radiology and “the circle of death” went nowhere because the most recent MRI was of insufficient resolution. I wish my radiologist had stressed, “Nothing can go forward until we get a new, higher res MRI, OK?” But no. So I was lucky and got a quick appointment with the lab for a new MRI. The troubling part is that the tech said, “Yep, this is the same type that we did last time.” Yikes. Now I’m just waiting on phone calls to find out the radiologist has received the CDs (what year is it?!) and can confirm that we’re good to go.
Things fall in to the cracks sometimes and one must simply marchons, marchons!
Keep the faith, MonkeyMensch. Miracles could happen every day. There are so many cancer survivors already these days. Believing that you’ll continue to be well.
Medical delays are the worst! I hope everything turns out fine.
I went to the radiologist this morning and had a pre-treatment chat with the second radiologist who dropped a bomblet on me: the treatment has a pretty good chance of causing loss of hearing in my right ear within a year or two.
Wha!? I wish you guys could mention shit like this prior to five minutes before treatment. I questioned if maybe two lower dose treatments would be of lower risk than one high dose treatment. It would be, though it would also be higher risk of ineffective treatment of the tumor.
So the question is really more a matter of life or deaf ! Hee. I like my primary radiologist and he said, “If I can talk to you in a year about some degree of hearing loss I’ll expect a big high-five from you!” That makes the decision so much easier: I’ll risk some hearing loss for a good shot at life! Now we’ve rescheduled the treatment with the “circle of death” for tomorrow morning. Talk to all soon with good news, no doubt…