Tuesday, September 06, 2011

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.





5 comments:

odp said...

You go, girl!!! We're rooting for you!!

(regarding that video: I would have thrown up all over everyone several times in the 2:50 it took to run that ride)

Olive

Anonymous said...

The other night I saw All About Eve again, and of course the coaster video reminded me of "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy ride"!

Actually, life reminds me of that too. At least lately, for everyone I know, me included.

I am so happy to hear your news.

Bonnie

Dan Matyola said...

Wonderful news, Regina!

We continue to pray for you well-deserved victory over all that confronts you.

Lt Dan

Laura said...

Gina,

Delightful news! There are sighs of relief throughout the country!

Laura

kmadeleine said...

Regina,
I am so happy to read this newest post. I just caught up with a whole bunch of postings (I had lost the link to your blog) and was getting very sad. Every day, weeks?, months?, years? count and I know make a big difference to you and your kids. You are so courageous and positive.

I'll send you an email about October 15 and see what you are planning and what I can do to help A LOT, including venue.

Madeleine