Great news!!!! But...

Since I hate when the nurse and doctors take forever to tell us about the scans, I'll just get right to it for you!

The exact words of the research nurse were, 'Your scans look amazing! We were so excited when we looked at them last night!'

So now the rest of the story.

We went to MDA yesterday morning and the scan was scheduled at 1:45. The scan actually took place about 4:30. The place was packed. Ugh. Cancer.

Then we found a great chicken fried steak at a local dive called Natachees. David wanted CFS. And if he's got an appetite, we're going to find what he wants!

Our table was ^^^ right here!

It had a South Austin kind of charm if you know what I mean. 😉 No offense South Austin!

Today started early, 7:45 bloodwork that happened about 8:15. 9:30 dr appt, that happened about 10:30.

The scans showed that some of the smaller nodules have shrunk to be not measurable and the larger ones, 2+cm, are reduced by half or more! Yippee! Thank you God for some good news today!  We haven't had news like this in years! He has been mostly stable for a long while. Which stable was good, we took that! But this! This is wow wow WOW!

Okay. Now the buzz kill. David has a blood clot in/near his spleen. This can be caused by the oral, trial medication he is taking.  So. He has to take a blood thinner for the next few weeks (and then probably as long as he takes this medication). And he has to stop the oral med until we go back. Without the stupid clot he would have graduated to once a month infusions and a scan every 3 months.  But now we go back in 2 weeks to check on the clot. Hopefully it will be dissolved, absorbed, whatever clots do, and he will go back on the trial med in conjunction with the infusion. He still got the infusion today and that should continue with the next one in 4 weeks.

So it's a setback, but we are still celebrating! Because cancer sucks and we want it gone!

So after seeing every dr and nurse and new PA and a Fellow with zero personality, we headed to the infusion, followed by an EKG that is part of the protocol but didnt get scheduled, surprise! You get to stay an hour longer today!

We were out about 4:00. Hello Houston traffic. I do love you, HOV lane!

Home about 7:30. So much happy!

Thank you for all the prayers! And thank God for these answers!

Please continue to pray that the clot goes away, the medication keeps working and minimal side effects!

Please also pray for Lorraine, who was at MDA today in the same building, on the same floor, at the same time and we didn't even see each other because the place is so stinking big!

And for Bobby and Ruth and Holli and Gloria.

Too much sickness.

Thank you for loving us!