update

[tinymonster]

Had a three month MRI on Monday morning.  Getting the MRI done was, as usual, no big deal.  The MRI techs always struggle with finding a vein that will cooperate to give me the contrast injection.  They ended up using the one in my left hand this time which always hurts like nothing else.  Tech guy told me that’s because the skin on your hands is tougher than what is in your elbow-pit. That made sense.  Years of scalding hot dish soap has to have consequences I suppose.  Later in the day I saw my oncologist.  A new radiologist had looked at my scan and was concerned about a spot and thought that maybe there could be some progression there.  The fabulous Dr. Snow was not convinced that it was anything so, she wanted her usual radiologist consult to look at the scan and give his opinion.  One worried night later and she called me Tuesday morning.  Her trusted radiologist didn’t think there was anything to be concerned about and the spot that had caused the alarm looked to him to be a flair or maybe some cells that accepted a little more contrast for some reason.  Long story short - she felt there was no cause for concern and that my tumor appears to be remaining stable.  Her recommendation is to do my remaining two rounds of Temodar to complete my year of treatments and then do another MRI and we’ll decide from there what action, if any, to take.  I am trying to forget that there was ever a question about my MRI and focus on everything remaining stable.  It’s a little strange to think that in a couple of months I might be done taking Temodar.  If so, then what… will I just be waiting for something to happen?  It sort of feels like I won’t be doing anything.  Yes, I know, the power of positive thinking, good nutrition, exercise, Reiki, yoga, mediation and all that isn’t nothing but it’s not tangible in the same way as taking medication - even if that medication is poison to the human body in general - it’s poisoning cancer cells specifically and my human body seems to have figured out how to deal with it as best it can.

So, round 11 of Temodar starts in a week or so and then, maybe I’ll just have one left.