It never fails. With each scan, there is such an enormous weight of emotions that sit on me waiting to crush every hope and dream I have.
All those painful, scary, heavy, and unwelcome emotions got up and walked away on May 25th after receiving the phone call from my nurse practitioner. Phew!
She said, "There is good news! The spot on your pelvis did not show up on the bone scan."
What a sense of relief I felt!
Then she says, "But . . . ."
Gotta say I have had enough with the word BUT!
She tells me there are two hot spots on my ribs: One on my anterior of my 2nd rib and one on my anterior 5th rib.
She states she and my doctor spoke with the Radiation Oncologist in charge of the radiation treatment I recently received. (That explains why it took some time to let me know the results.) It was decided that those spots may be from inflammation caused by the radiation to the mass of lymph nodes in the mediastinum--the radiation had to exit the body somewhere. I can continue treatment with Kadcyla! A bone scan will be ordered in three months and will be compared to the CAT scan to be done during the same time period. For now, it is another watch and wait situation.
She also mentioned that she wanted to talk to me before I went to My Chart and read the report. I see why, and so will you. It is not very comforting.
I was hoping for another "nothing to see here" moment, but instead, it is nothing more than the old guessing game of cancer.
In the scheme of all things cancer, this is a good report. I am going to believe that this is not cancer spread and do my best not to worry. The ride of doom and gloom that I will eventually have to get on left without me today, thankfully.
In other happy news, a new buddy is coming to live with me. I am so excited!! He will be here on the 11th. Not sure of the name yet. Any suggestions?
All those painful, scary, heavy, and unwelcome emotions got up and walked away on May 25th after receiving the phone call from my nurse practitioner. Phew!
She said, "There is good news! The spot on your pelvis did not show up on the bone scan."
What a sense of relief I felt!
Then she says, "But . . . ."
Gotta say I have had enough with the word BUT!
She tells me there are two hot spots on my ribs: One on my anterior of my 2nd rib and one on my anterior 5th rib.
She states she and my doctor spoke with the Radiation Oncologist in charge of the radiation treatment I recently received. (That explains why it took some time to let me know the results.) It was decided that those spots may be from inflammation caused by the radiation to the mass of lymph nodes in the mediastinum--the radiation had to exit the body somewhere. I can continue treatment with Kadcyla! A bone scan will be ordered in three months and will be compared to the CAT scan to be done during the same time period. For now, it is another watch and wait situation.
She also mentioned that she wanted to talk to me before I went to My Chart and read the report. I see why, and so will you. It is not very comforting.
Foci uptake in the anterior left second rib
and anterior left fifth rib
are favored to represent metastases.
I was hoping for another "nothing to see here" moment, but instead, it is nothing more than the old guessing game of cancer.
In the scheme of all things cancer, this is a good report. I am going to believe that this is not cancer spread and do my best not to worry. The ride of doom and gloom that I will eventually have to get on left without me today, thankfully.
In other happy news, a new buddy is coming to live with me. I am so excited!! He will be here on the 11th. Not sure of the name yet. Any suggestions?
