Hello everyone,

We had a visit with Dr Smith, the radiation oncologist (rad onc) on Friday. He agrees that everything is looking good and moving along just as they expected and hoped. Steve will hopefully get his port out this week. Dr Smith will be connecting with a dr in Rochester to go over the scans and such and they will map out a radiation plan together. They are thinking ten treatments should do it. These will begin in a week and a half to two weeks. The biggest side effect from this will be fatigue.

Thanks for your prayers,

~Vicki

We had a visit today with Dr Dalton in Dr C's absence. He told us that Steve's lab work is still very good and the pet scan looked good. Some of his lymph nodes are still a bit enlarged (which is expected at this point) but there is no activity at all of cancer. After saying some goodbyes to the nurses we went to Baker's Square for a celebratory lunch and pie! Very good.

Tomorrow we will get a radiation plan. Stay tuned.

~Vicki

Another week of appointments

Today, Steve had another Pet scan. We will see results of this later in the week. Thursday he will have another blood draw and then see the oncologist. Friday we'll visit with the radiation oncologist and then they will spend some time mapping out a plan for radiation. We will update after that when we get some info.

Lots o' Love,
~Vicki

The end of chemo

Final chemo today! Everything as usual except to be on the safe side Dr C chose to do a quick check of his port after taking that hit at the baseball game. They put some dye in and used a special light to watch the path to be sure there were no cracks or leaks. We didn't want to come this far and have something go wrong. One of the drugs used in chemo could cause serious damage to the chest wall if it leaked.

Later this month he will have another PET scan and more lab work. Then an appointment with Dr Smith, the radiation oncologist. They will have a quick appt and then take some time to put together a plan for the radiation.

Thanks to everyone for their prayers and encouragement to Steve.

Love,

~Vicki