The ride continues! [TITLE CHANGED - AGAIN] (2 Viewers)

I hope this will really be the final update, at least on this subject:

I have completed treatment and will be ringing the bell this week: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/ne...-bell-rings-with-relief-and-hope-11135577.php The scans are clear, no more biopsies to be done.

I am cancer free.

Now, there are some things that have to be done and I will forever be under the watchful eyes of a cancer specialist or two for the remainder of my, what is now hoped to be long, life. There will be scans and tests and occasional visits. There may be "maintenance" therapies. I plan to take each of them in stride.

I want to thank each and every one of you who has offered good thoughts, prayer, encouragement, support, a shoulder to cry on, a joke to laugh at, meals, treats and smiles. I have said it before and I will continue to say it - waking up each morning knowing that someone is praying for you and loving you is the greatest gift any of us can receive. I am beyond blessed.

Congratz man. First good news this year since LSU won it all
 
Great to hear, Jay. Very glad that the news remains positive. You need to make a trip back down south once the world runs out of Corona.
 
So weird that it feels like ancient history now. This virus has jacked up my sense of time.

There are so many things right now which are so surreal. Every time I have to go someplace and see lines waiting to get in or a grocery store with very few people inside at the height of the day or a hospital setting where there is no one in the hallways it jacks with my sense of reality. Given our current layout I spend about 85% of my day in the same room, so that is weird too.

It is almost sad to say that the only normal cadence I have is the regularly-scheduled doctor's visits.
 
This thread being bumped made me nervous.
Especially now that the OP isn't highlighted.

Great to hear, Jay!! Sending good thoughts and well-wishes your way for more good news from your scan. I wish I could do more. I'm sure you have therapists at your disposal, but if you ever need the advice of an OT, please reach out :)
 
I had another scan yesterday. There is a nodule (about the size of a pencil eraser) of some sort which has been on the scans for a while, but in yesterday's scan, it was slightly larger than it had been before. Given my recent battle with the gall bladder and a recurrence of skin cancer, it could be larger because of a number of things but we're going to have it biopsied just to make sure. I am sure it is nothing to worry about, and we'll handle it no matter what the results are. The biopsy is scheduled about a week and a half from now and we should know the results a few days after that.

Please send out positive vibes and prayers.

I had a rather odd (or maybe not) thought this morning based on all of those MBC (metastatic breast cancer) commercials that we see all of the time. It seems that in some cases we're "living with cancer" by "managing" it such that it doesn't become life-threatening as kind of a middle step between having cancer and curing cancer. The latest immunotherapy drugs (Opdivo, Keytruda) seem to be in that class of drugs for some patients too. Slowing cancer's progression until we can find a cure, so to speak.
 
I had another scan yesterday. There is a nodule (about the size of a pencil eraser) of some sort which has been on the scans for a while, but in yesterday's scan, it was slightly larger than it had been before. Given my recent battle with the gall bladder and a recurrence of skin cancer, it could be larger because of a number of things but we're going to have it biopsied just to make sure. I am sure it is nothing to worry about, and we'll handle it no matter what the results are. The biopsy is scheduled about a week and a half from now and we should know the results a few days after that.

Please send out positive vibes and prayers.

I had a rather odd (or maybe not) thought this morning based on all of those MBC (metastatic breast cancer) commercials that we see all of the time. It seems that in some cases we're "living with cancer" by "managing" it such that it doesn't become life-threatening as kind of a middle step between having cancer and curing cancer. The latest immunotherapy drugs (Opdivo, Keytruda) seem to be in that class of drugs for some patients too. Slowing cancer's progression until we can find a cure, so to speak.
Sending all the positive vibes your way!
 
Good thoughts and prayers coming your way.
 
Well, shoot.

The spot I described previously is a recurrence of the previous cancer, but it is just that spot. Since NSCLC of this type is fairly slow-growing we caught it very early and plan to perform focused radiation known as stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) also known as stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR). I should have anywhere from 1 to 3 treatments. We will not know any results until January though, because any scan before that would show the inflammation from the treatment and give us a false sense of whether the treatment worked or not.

Thanks, 2020.

I have always said that if you can wake up in the morning knowing that people are praying for you and loving you that there is no way you can have a bad day, so I am asking for your prayers, well-wishes and speaking good vibes into the universe.
 
Well, shoot.

The spot I described previously is a recurrence of the previous cancer, but it is just that spot. Since NSCLC of this type is fairly slow-growing we caught it very early and plan to perform focused radiation known as stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) also known as stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR). I should have anywhere from 1 to 3 treatments. We will not know any results until January though, because any scan before that would show the inflammation from the treatment and give us a false sense of whether the treatment worked or not.

Thanks, 2020.

I have always said that if you can wake up in the morning knowing that people are praying for you and loving you that there is no way you can have a bad day, so I am asking for your prayers, well-wishes and speaking good vibes into the universe.
Prayers up! :)
 

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