NEWS

No news is good news is an old adage, but some news is not always bad, nor is it always good. Sometimes it’s somewhere in between. My new news is somewhere in between or as my oncologist put it I have gone from “too good to be true” to “not so bad.”. The CT scan done Tuesday showed a large pleural effusion (fluid) on the left lung and the cancer is showing some activity. Nothing terribly alarming, but it is there. The fluid was causing some serious breathlessness so I had that drained this morning, We got about two and one-half liters. So I am feeling much better and when the lung adjusts, it usually takes a day, I will be feeling fine again and will be able to breath normally. We have two choices. Wait awhile and see if the cancer and fluid build up continue. In that scenario I would have checkups every three weeks. The other choice is to go back on chemo with the hope that we can get back to “too good to be true.” My choice is the go back on chemo and nip this in the bud if we can. We will taking a smaller dose of Alimta than we did the last time and the hope is that I will be able to tolerate it and that it will do as good a job on the cancer as it did the last time. The first treatment will be in two weeks. If the chemo has adverse effects to the point that I can’t function normally then we’ll make another decision. None of this is particularly surprising, Cancers were born to grow and I knew that at some point we would have to fight this thing again. So, we will. I am disappointed, but not bummed. I know I will continue to have all of the great support and positive thoughts that I have had in the past and you can’t know how much I appreciate that