You Can't Handle The Truth

“Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature - Martin H. Fischer”

Hi Everyone! Just a quick note I promise…maybe!

SO, as I had reported in a previous email that Mike was after the first of the year going to start a new chemo-combo that would attack the new spots and continue to work on any other areas that may be contemplating flaring or eliminate any underlying disease that lays dormant ( I always imagine cancer like that Mucus commercial as they check into the mucus hotel and dance around before they are hit with the cold remedy – ha!)…plans have changed.

Last week our visit with Dr. Tsao was not too long, because we were given some options. Mike could sign up for a study that would take 5 weeks of biopsy’s, testing, etc before we even got results that he was admitted, which at the end of those 5 weeks he may not even be accepted into the study. Mike was weary of this choice for the new spots on the liver made him nervous and pro-longing chemo did not sound appealing. We contacted Sr. Tsao’s office and let them know Mike’s feelings, so we scheduled our visit to discuss new chemo plans. Between that time and today, Mike has been experiencing some back pains, lower back pains related to the underlying cancer that had not changed, but yet was stable and causing some nerve damage. The day before our Oncologist visit, Mike met with an Oncologist Radiologist and he will undergo MEGA-Radiation for 7 treatments (starting tomorrow) to rid the cancer as it did in his brain last year (when the optic nerve was in jeopardy and the multiple brain tumors). The oncology team will then use radiation on the rest of the spine to ensure the disease is tackled and no reoccurrence (GOD Willing). For this we are very confident in trusting that radiation is a bad-mama-jama (at least for Mike), and this will knock out a HUGE part of the bone cancer (that could affect the nervous system in the long term) and rid of that!

Because the last visits have been SO amazing, I have trusted and went on our way – but the last visit with the report of new spots (yet I did not GOOGLE) I did research ALL the terminology from the reports and had my questions ready.

ALL my worries were put to rest today, for what I imagined what was happening – the Cancer landing on the liver and that meant that it was going to turn into the flesh eating disease and his system would shut down and then it was near the end. I told this to our Oncologist tonight and she giggled. She always is so polite and even avoids using too much “Dr” terminology with us to allow us to understand what exactly is happening is his system. She grabbed my hand and assured me that waiting for this chemo to start was not meaning that it would allow this cancer to engross his liver! In fact, the spots were so small and no other activity, it is normal and when radiation is done, she is confident it will take care of these spots too. Since this disease entered our lives, man your mind goes up and down and roller coasters all over the place. Then it sets into what happened on the latest episode of ‘House’ you may have watched or any other medical show even ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.

Well thank you to our team of doctors, they really do keep it real. She was very honest in telling me that since Mike has been diagnosed he has surpassed EVERY mark they have set for him pertaining to the “studies”, and prognosis set. She said tonight that he remains one of the healthiest patients she has (despite the cancer). In all he has not slowed down at all or showed any signs of slowing down and will continue to rise above this…his situations is continued to be miraculous!

In closing, I just wanted to remind myself and all, that like the quote above, statistics are written in ink, for we continue to live in nature – which I will continue to trust GOD --- HE continues to hold the truth and nothing but the truth --- I can handle it!

XO Lyndie