Good new...I have no new tumors in the parts of my body that they scanned and the tumors that they were following have either haven't increased in size, have decreased in size and have disappeared.
Bad news....the side effects of this drug continue to compromise my health and decrease my quality of life. My liver functions has been compromised by the drug. I am now in the dangerous zone yet but could soon be.
Difficult decisions to be made. Dr. Lufkin , Rebecca and I discussed many options for me and decided that I would continue on the drug for another 3 weeks but may stop if further blood test show that the liver function is worse or if the fatigue, joint pain and skin growths get any worse.
By the time I got home yesterday evening, I was more than exhausted. Had a little soup and went to bed.
Felt enough better this morning to got to breakfast with SueAnn and then spend an hour on a lovely morning wandering around the booths at the Fall Festival. Bought presents for the grand kids and a carved stone and metal sculpture for the yard and a lovely bonsai for my window sill. Only lasted a little over an hour and came home.
It is hard to be inside on such a lovely fall afternoon but luckily there are some very good football games on. Going to stay home and root for the Beavers on the blue turf against Boise State.
GO BEAVS!!
That's a real two-sided coin. Great tumor news (worthy of a Snoopy dance); crummy side-effects news.
ReplyDeleteI surely do hope that you watched the Stanford game! I know that you're an OSU fan now, but SOME residual SU spirit should remain. Their record is better this year than anytime since 1986 or something.