We have just returned from MD Anderson and so far all of the results of my tests have been clear. There is one CT scan that hadn’t come back but we aren’t expecting anything from it either.
Still cancer free!!!
UPDATE Tuesday night. Dr. Romaguera emailed me today and said that the final CT scan came back (the one taken of my chest) and it was also clean. YEPPIE!! I’ll have a doctors visit next week and IF my blood work is holding stable, I’m done with doctors and hospitals for four months (until spring break when we have to go back for check up number 2)
Here’s to something to be thankful for!
Bradley
November 20th, 2007 at 08:44am
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This weekend is my first quarterly visit back to MD Anderson for the round of tests they do to make sure the cancer isn’t back. However, since I had the bone marrow done last month when they thought it was back, I don’t have to do that again! I’m having the heart tests done here today and will take those results with me to Dr. Romaguera on Monday in Houston. MD Anderson will do blood work, chest xrays and 4 CT scans.
I had my weekly blood work done yesterday. Good news is that the bone marrow and red cells both went up, although just barely. The white’s went down 1 1/2 points again and is back down in the mid 3 range. It’s been three weeks since my neulasta shot so what I have should be from my bone marrow and not the medications but it needs to be higher than that.
Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving. Remember, no matter how bad your situation seems to be, there is always something to be thankful for. Sometimes you really have to look for it, but it’s there.
Brad
November 14th, 2007 at 08:32am
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If you haven’t read my earlier post from today, please read it first. It will help make sense of this one.
I had my blood work done after school today. My platelets almost doubled and are over 100K again. My hemoglobin is at 12.5 which I haven’t seen since March. My whites are just below 5 and my neutrophils are 3. Red cells are around 3.5 All of that is good news.
When they brought my numbers out to me today, they said “whatever you did for breakfast this morning, keep doing it”. Little did they know what I had done this morning. If you still haven’t read the previous post about me and my meds, please do so. Anyway, they got a good laugh out of it and proclaimed that overdosing on 25 mg of ambien must be the cure to cancer! We agreed to all share in the billions of dollars this would certainly bring us and will be quitting our jobs in the near future.
Yeh, right!
I have an EKG and echocardiogram on Friday morning so that I can take the results with me to MD Anderson in less than two weeks when we go back for my quarterly checkup.
On an even better note, I was reading an article this weekend on new treatments in mantle cell lymphoma. This was from a meeting of doctors in March of this year. They quoted studies that indicated that the median survival has doulbed from three to six years now! That was good news but then it went on to say that those numbers didn’t include the newest treatments that were out there including the one that was done BEFORE the treatment that I rec’d. Hey, they keep doubling survival rates and I may have to worry about saving for retirement after all!!
Bradley
November 6th, 2007 at 05:37pm
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My tendancy to rush while taking my medicines has bitten my bottom again. Last time I took double pills on synthroid for about two weeks. We coulnd’t understand why my heart was beating so fast. Doubling up on the synthroids will do it.
Today is not so danagerous but seems to be more ammusing to the staff here at school. I thought I was taking my two synthroid pills but on the way to school with my wife, I noticed I started feeling a little “free” like I do when I take my pain pills but they dont’ hit for an hour so that couldn’t have been it. Tami called home and had Katie looked to see what I had done and she found out what it was. I have 12.5 abmien to help me sleep. Well, it appears that I took two of those extended sleeping pills to start my day with 5th graders….LOL
We’ll see how that goes. Wagers are now being taken on why I hit the mat for good.
Numbers later today.
November 6th, 2007 at 08:53am
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