Doctor & Chemo

Today was a busy day. We started off with Shirley doing her labwork. Then we went in to see the doctor. After his exam he let us know that Shirley's MRI does show she has cancer in the bone (her hip) which we already knew. She informed him that her pain has pretty much gone away this last week and is not bothering her. He said that if her pain was still there he would consider doing radiation. I guess this would help with the pain. But if he did that he would have to stop her chemotherapy. And we definitely do not want to do that. So we decided to just let that go and monitor it ourselves. By the time he was done, he decided to keep doing what we are doing and in 3 weeks he will do a CT scan to check her tumors.

After that, we went up to have her chemo treatment. At this time, they gave us her tumor markers. When we started this whole process back in April, Shirley's tumor markers were at 190 something. Today they were at 89. We were all very excited. This has to be good news.

What was shocking was that they informed us this was our 5th round of treatments. I am shocked - I had no idea it had already been 5 treatments.

Anyway, I have to say.... Shirley has some really good people in her corner. God must really like you guys. He is listening to our prayers and he is answering them. She is doing great. Her blood work looks good, she is in almost no pain, she handles her chemo like a pro, tumors are shrinking and her tumor markers are down.

Now, tonight in our prayers, we will thank God for the good news we got today and for Shirley fighting as hard as she is!!! I love you all!

Teresa