And Now For Something Completely Different- How About a Little Good News For a Change!

Day 22

Day 22 brings me back around to the beginning of my chemo cycle. One cycle down, 5 more to go. Today started out with mass confusion, as my move from the hospital cancer center, to the doctor’s office for treatment didn’t exactly go smoothly. It seems that with the volleyball like bouncing of the patient, a few things were forgotten, like telling me to go for labs yesterday, so off we went to the hospital for port access, and stat labs. After a couple of hour setback we began my poisoning process. Happiness! Everyone spent the rest of the day apologizing to us for the inconvenience, but not everyday can be paradise, and I am an easy patient, things will happen, it’s just life, no harm done.

There was also wonderful news today. Although I am not naive enough to believe that this will always be the way things will go, I am praying for a trend. Both my tumor markers, and my bone destruction markers dropped. The bone markers returned to well within normal range, and (drum roll please), my tumor markers dropped nearly 25%, a whole 67 points in three weeks. Now I understand why they wanted to repeat the test. While they told me last week that there was a large discrepancy between the labs, requiring a repeat test at the lab that had performed the initial labs, I was sure that the numbers must have risen, and was repaired for that bad news. I would have never guessed that they had dropped so far, and was happy to be blindsided with good news for a change. I am so thankful for each and every prayer that has been said on my behalf. I know that they are what have sustained me. Our God is awesome enough to do anything. I believe I saw His wondrous work today.