Nobody

Things have been going really well lately. I’ve been feeling well and we are making plans for when we leave the beautiful house we have been living in all winter and take off in our motorhome in mid-April.

On 3/15, I had the last full treatment of chemo. From now on I will be on a maintenance dosage of chemo, which consists of all the drugs I had before, minus what the doctor calls the “nasty drug”. For the past six months, I was able to receive 12 rounds of the full chemo without any reduction in dosages. Praise God!

We had no idea how significant being able to withstand those 12 rounds of full chemo was until 3/15. We had previously been told it was “unusual” for someone to make it to 8 rounds without the chemo being reduced. On 3/15, I asked how unusual it was to make it through the entire 12 rounds without a reduction. The answer was, “Nobody in our study has ever made it to 12 rounds without a reduction. You are the first”.

Nobody! Praise God. How amazing is that? God is so good. Thank you for your prayers.

Today I started the maintenance dose of chemotherapy. With one less drug, we were able to get through the regimen 30 minutes faster. The side effects should be less. We asked the doctor if there would ever be a time when I would end the maintenance chemo. He said that it is too risky to do that because even though the scans may show no evidence of cancer, the cancer is likely always there at the cellular level.  The fact that I will always have to have some sort of chemo does not fit with my plans at all.  But here's the thing...there are worse things than having to have chemo every other week.  We do not know what the future holds. It has always been in God’s hands. We trust Him.

We have a new set of scans scheduled for Wednesday April 5. We are trusting God that no active cancer will be shown on these scans. Please join us in praying for clean scans.