Fridays Update

Hi there,
Sorry its taken the whole day to get to the computer to write but Steve & I were busy at the hospital(all day).

The short version of this story, is that my cancer is back, with some new(more) disease. Metabolic activity in my sternum is larger, I have a new positive lymph node in my right axilla area, and I have a new positive, peritracheal tracheal lymph node, and the lymph node in my clavical has grown big enough for a biopsy.

Doc sent me right to ENT who confirmed that this was a lymph node of specious size and that I should have a biopsy. ENT sent me right to ultrasound, where I had a biopsy and the results should be available next week. The results are just a formality as it does appear to everyone that this is all recurrence. Long story even shorter I should be starting radiation therapy soon, and my Doc is going to look into available Chemotherapy treatments after I am done with radiation for whatever the radiation is unable to hit.

I feel fine after my biopsy. I wish I had something positive to report but the hits just keep on coming. I guess the bright spot in all of this is that now that I have measuable disease in my body they are hopeful that they can reduce the pain in my sternum with radiation, and I might be able to get in on some type of clinical trial.

For now I think I am just going to try and relax this weekend and enjoy time with my husband and my dog.