Strap on your Seatbelts

We are in for another ride on the rollercoaster.


Dr. Martins was very chipper this morning. It turns out that the clinical trial back east has their own radiologist who does an independent read of the ct scans, rather than automatically accept the read of the Seattle Cancer Care radiologist. This time around, the clinical trial radiologist opined that he thought my scans showed stable results (Dr. Martins has no idea if he read the part about the kidney lesion).

So Dr. Martins has a call into the radiologist to make sure that he is certain about this, but fingers crossed, it looks like I still may be in the clinical trial. Will find out Thurs. Dr. Martins thinks as I do, that the clinical trial, at the very least, has slowed the progression of the disease. I'm past the median life expectancy (13-18 months) and I'm still in pretty great shape--no pleural effusions, no spikes in the blood tests, no physical evidence of brain metasteses.  All except for the hypothyroidism which could  be due to age.

So we have at least this little window of hope.

Thanks for all your notes and emails.  They were and are appreciated.