We have been busy (in a very relaxing and blessed way) with family and friends visiting. People have asked if it was tiring to have visitors - but these visitors were a blessing, an encouragement, great support, and domestic super heroes.
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| Here are the Sistas being an encouragement and general life-of-the-party |
As the dust settles (now that you understand that phrase correctly) our next oncology scan was done this week. Judy came home with a nice certificate explaining to officials that her radioactivity was entirely due to medical reasons. Apparently the isotope they used had a half life of 2 hours and would be undetectable after 20 hours. Pretty spooky stuff if you ask me!
Well that was a few days ago and we've let Judy back into the house. Fortunately there was no snow that night, only light rain.
Today we had the report from the oncologist and it was perhaps a little confusing, but mostly good. So the Good : Judy's tumors in her spine are reduced and there was no sign of spread to any other bones. The scan also showed 'stuff' around both lungs, consistent with the disease but the oncologist said that he thinks this is due to the surgeries on both lungs. Certainly Judy is feeling no pain, suffering shortness of breath, or coughing. So the oncologists more cheerful conclusion has our endorsement. Another confusing (and maybe 'bad' part of the report was that the liver lesions appeared to have increased. The initial PET scan didnt show very clearly what was going on in the liver so a CT scan was performed which showed 7-9 lessions, 2 of which were significant. So we don't THINK this result stands. Again Judy feels well (she even put on a few more pounds!), and that counts for a lot.
The oncologist really did feel this was a good result, confusion not withstanding and not altogether unusual. He said it was days like today that got him into this business and we were quite happy to have made his day for him!
As for the ugly, that is clearly the events in Newtown. While we celebrate and praise God for his answers to prayers regarding Judy's health, the events of last Friday cast a pall over all around us. Please continue to pray for all those affected by this horror.
