7th PET/CT scan results

Well,
I've been trying to figure out what to say, what to share since yesterday afternoon. I was trying to figure out some snappy, or colorful detailed way to say, that I have more cancer. Eleven more, if you only count the quote "several small new" or "three new metabolically active" as one. Its depressing enough to know that cancer is spreading, without counting how many more places it has gone.

Believe it or not, technology is too good these days! The PET part of my scan picks up suspicious spots as small as 4mm. Then the radiologist says "several new small" on the report & I get told my cancer has spread. (it is done in a much more graceful and tactful way than that)However small 'it' maybe, I've got new measurable spots of metastatic disease in: various lymph nodes, 3 spots in the liver,& in the bone-femur, pubic,scapula and spine.

Yesterday, I was upset, for many reasons! DUH, right. I'd been expecting to hear, that I was the same as early August, with the exception of the sternum. I was more than hopeful that I was going to have an uneventful office visit. After all, I was in less pain, taking less pain medication, AND all of you kept telling me that I had to be getting better; I was talked into it! Crushed, is how I felt yesterday. That news took away, all the hope I had been storing up & shook my belief foundation once again.

Today is a new day, and even though there is a "nor-easter" hitting our area, my mood is better. I'm bummed that I didn't get the greatest news, but am thankful that my Oncologist still has tricks up his sleeve. I'm visiting Duke Breast Oncology on Monday, September 29, and am assuming that a cutting edge Comprehensive Cancer Institute will have something to offer a patient like me. I'm expecting to hear about clinical trials, and see myself participating in them asap. I will be receiving some kind of chemotherapy treatment by early October.

This, however, will not stop me from walking in the 2nd annual Team Tiffany here in Virginia Beach on October 18th. I'd love to be attending the Hawaii race, on October 19th, but 1)its not enough time to travel 2)I am not made of $$$ these days! I will be there in spirit, cheering on my Hawaii Ohana(family). This year I have a fundraising goal, because I'd like to give something back, and to provide others with great care. I am so fortunate with the great care I've gotten while sick. It saddens me, that others don't get the same kind of wonderful care. So I'm fundraising...

I"m sorry I can't give you guys better news; I wish in so many ways that I could. I hope that you folks know that I'm sad I have to be this "sick", but you gotta know that I'm still the same determined, & pig-headed Tiffany ya'll know & love! lol Please pass onto others that might not have interenet (Miss Amy, Karen Jenkins, The Rev, Kate at Arlington's evening shift,Robyn, Weldon, Gerber, Dana, Gladys, LiAnn, Carm, Uncle Fred......hang on, this is getting to long!) If you could, pass on any information to our mutual friends, I'd appreciate it!

I hope each of you are doing well? Please write me sometime, and let me know what's up! Until then, take care......