I guess I will start with the medical stuff. I needed to take the needle biopsy because the results from the Cat scan had shown 2 nodes that had not shrunk and got a little larger. The Doc wanted to know if they contained B Cell He called today and told me that the nodes did contained B Cell which I am sure he had suspected. That was not good news but the good news is Dr. Bailey and Dr Levine from Ann Arbor have a plan to reduce the nodes but it will take time before I can start the BMT. I start tomorrow with a bag of Retucson remember from the mouse pee. Then Friday I get a bag of stuff that afterwords if your skin gets cold it feels like knifes are sticking in. I think that would be a good one to do in the summer I will pick up a ski mask on my way home Thursday.
I would like to remind everyone that Cancer really sucks. But I continue to think this can be beat, Sharen said that its like riding on a roller coaster some times. I will take the
chemo two days every 3 weeks I think. This will let me get some more projects complete before the BMT starts.
Today I got a packet from the school that Brie goes to with several get well cards and letting me know that they are praying for me everyday. The school is of course a Christian school and the cards came from a 4th and 5th grade class, my little Brie is in the first grade. I hope I do not disappoint them and really do get well.
Everyone take care and continue to pray for us and God bless.
I think that Katryna can sympathize with the cold skin and knifes. The cold weather is not her best time and she was practically in tears this morning asking when the snow would melt so she could dig in the sand. Apparently digging in the snow is not quite the same thing. Every morning for the last week she cries brr mommy brr, it's brr as I am trying to get her dressed. A problem that is perpetuated by the fact that I have been up for a half hour already and have fingers that feel like icicles.
ReplyDeleteI vaguely remember hearing about this new treatment a few years back. I think it was next to the boiling oil for arthritis remedy. Yes, I think freezer treatment with knifes was somewhere around there, I understand that it was very effective :-). Love you dad.