Week 9 Preview and CT Scan results

Hi everyone

The power of prayer is an amazing thing! I saw my oncologist today and we reviewed the results from my CT Scan on Monday and we have a clean bill of health!!! I get completely stressed out waiting for the results of these tests because these are the meetings where you first hear that you have “something” and that “something” can be, and usually is, cancer. Understandably I am gun shy about getting these results because twice in my life they have brought devastating news to us.

 

What made it even more stressful today was this: At the last CT Scan they thought they saw something in one of my lungs. I did not share this with anyone because it was very unclear what they were seeing and these doctors are very OVER cautious due to lawsuits, etc. My oncologist said it was probably nothing and gave it a 90% chance that it was nothing. Because it was pretty dubious, they decided to wait a few months and re-do the scan so they could compare. Because it was all so unlikely I did not share this with anyone.  You can imagine how we felt going into the office today, we were pretty freaked out. But the good news is that all is well in there and what they thought was something turns out to be nothing. Tonight Carol and I will get a very good nights sleep!

 

I want to thank all the Angels out there for your prayers and positive thoughts. It worked!

 

So now we are off to Week #9 tomorrow and I will go there with a smile on my face because  I know there is no cancer in me!! After that we have 3 sessions to go and then we are DONE!

I don't know if anyone is all that interested in blood tests but I am attaching a picture that shows what the basic blood test results “should be” and what my numbers were back in Sept and what they are today.

I don't know what all the different tests mean but you can figure out most of them (RBC=Red Blood Count; WBC=White Blood Count., etc) What is interesting is to see that some of them are quite low based on today’s test but they are still high enough for them to give me Week #9 without skipping a week or two. We will hope that these numbers stay high enough that we can finish this thing on schedule which is FEBRUARY 26, 2010. Mark your calendars, that is V for Victory Day. Or maybe its F for Freedom from Chemo Day. Whatever we call it , it’s the day that Carol and I can start  getting our lives back to normal and normal is looking very nice right now!

 

Peace and Love!!

Thank God for a clean CT Scan!

Thank YOU for all your prayers and positive thoughts!

 

John and Carol