it is not cancer!!!! it is indeed an infection....we are still waiting for a clear picture of the type of infection...but the biopsy is clear...
this is amazing news...the report two weeks ago said...
1) good news...the original tumors are shrinking (are under control)
2) bad news...it has spread to the lungs
with the latest results and no cancer in the lungs it is straight up good news...the chemo IS working and the lung infection is treatable...
i feel like an enormous weight has been lifted...such relief...smiles from ear to ear...
thanks to all of you for keeping up with us...for hoping and praying with us...
thank you God... for ginny...for health....for time...
kirsten
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Thursday, July 1, 2010
a duck? maybe not!
if it looks like a duck...walks like a duck...quacks like a duck...it must be a duck...
but wait...the doctor thinks it could be a platypus!
there was a twinge of anger this afternoon once i realized that the report from the local oncologist last thursday was, perhaps, premature...that is right...premature...
the spots in ginny's lungs may indeed be cancer...but there are two other explanations...the chemo may have caused a lung infection...in the next week gin will undergo additional testing to rule out tuberculosis and other pulmonary infections...a biopsy of the largest lesion will also be done to determine a presence of cancer or not...
additionally...to be proactive and to continue to treat the cancer she will begin hormone treatment (megase)...she will take 4 pills a day....so ginny will get a chemo break!
ginny feels like she was given a death sentence last week and after today she feels like she has been given an appeal...i am holding my breath...these spots may very well be cancer...and they may not...
so ginny hopes...despite my fear...i hope....and we ask that you hope too...
ginny had the TB test today...results on saturday...next wednesday (july 7th) she will travel back to rochester for the pulmonary tests and appointments with docs in the afternoon...our friend rita will go in my place...
i will be in california with my family...taking jayme and dustin to disney...this is a challenge for me as i feel like i need to be here but ginny is insisting that i go...
i will update you, as ginny updates me, this weekend and into next week...
kirsten
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