Update on Connie, part whatever

A week ago Monday (October 14th), Connie had a treatment scheduled along with a visit with the Oncologist to discuss her two scans from the previous week of her full body and her brain.

As we've talked about before, chemo only works on the disease that's below the neck.  The scans showed very little progression, not enough to be concerned.  So the chemo has been working.  In the race for cancer to gain traction on my wife's body, right now the brain has taken the lead again.

The brain scans, however, showed "significant" progression.  His opinion was that the brain needed to be evaluated and we needed to go over things with our neuro oncologist at the Cleveland Clinic.  We got a "virtual visit" scheduled with them for today, Friday, the 25th.  He gave Connie the option of going through with the treatment or waiting till we've heard from the neuro surgeon.  She chose to skip the treatment on the 14th and 21st.  Basically, while keeping the body under check is necessary, if the brain gets too far ahead, it trumps the body.

It's really no different than the position we were in this past January, or the March the year before.

Met with the Neuro surgeon today via "virtual visit", and, similar to the last time, he can't tell if it's progression of the lesion or if it's radiation necrosis from past treatments.  We're going to do a month of steroids to reduce the swelling.  After that, around the week of Thanksgiving, we'll shoot new pictures of the brain.  We'll send those to Cleveland Clinic for assessment and do another virtual visit probably in the first two weeks of December.

Got Connie back on the chemo schedule a week from Monday, so she'll be resuming those.  We appreciate all the love and support.  While I don't answer everyone, please know that we're feeling the love.