You Are Not Going to Believe This!

Rory, Liz (who got out of the hospital yesterday), and I headed to the hospital bright and early this morning. My scar tissue was very, very painful yesterday and he wanted to see me to try to head off infection. Instead of coming home with antibiotics, I came home with the news that he and Dr. T (the surgeon from last week) feel that my cancer is stable enough to take a break from chemo! 

I told you that you wouldn't believe it!

Last week when we saw Dr. T he mentioned that he felt like my CT scan showed that all the tumor pieces were calcified and dead. I was encouraged but tried not to read too much into it because he isn't my oncologist. But after talking with Dr. T, looking at my scans again, and the knowledge that my CA125 has been stable for the last several months, they both agreed that it was time to take a little break. I don't even have to go back for bloodwork until February 2!

There are a couple of downsides. Like, for instance, part of this break gives my gallbladder a chance to flare up again and have surgery with fewer complications. It's also a way of checking to see if those calcifications are really all dead tumors or if there might be some living pieces inside the tumors. But for now, I am going to do as Dr. T recommended last week when he told me that my CA125 was 16. I'm going to take a minute, take a deep breath, and soak in the best news I've received in a very. long. time.

If I had all your phone numbers, I would call and tell you myself. I am that happy.

And, yes, I totally bought myself flowers to celebrate when I saw them in Whole Foods.