Tuesday, August 19, 2008

It sounds like were back to where we started

Dear friends, i haven't seen the final pathology report from UCSF, (perish the thought of the patient or her spouse seeing it ) but it was faxed to our oncologist today. His assistant told me she read it line by line , and basically it seems we are back to where we started on June 24th. They now say it is Ovarian cancer that has spread to the liver, they are saying the primary site of origin was the ovaries. this is in fact good news as ovarian cancer in the liver responds well to chemo therapy. It's far better than Cups (Carcinoma of unknown primary site) which usually originates in the lungs or pancreas, and hugely better than Pnet. So we've been scared to doodah, and now we have to deal with a serious but treatable cancer.According to the "experts" it's still uncurable, well we'll see about that! this all illustrates tne need to be super diligent with one's own health care, making sure everything is being done thoroughly and correctly.
Our next step is to get the pathology to Stanford, have them test it and see if they concur.
Lainey sailed through chemo today with flying colors, the side effects will kick in , in 24 hours, also next week she gets 1 week off before 3 more rounds, so that will be a welcome break for her.
Hopefully this chemo coupled with"alternative remedies' will put this puppy out of business for a good long time. I told Lainey today, "you'll be around to keep me on my toes the rest of my life"!
So we've gone from bad to worse and back to bad,so now bad doesn't seem so bad after all, there must be a lesson in that somewhere.
Love to all , Keith and the defiant cancer butt kicking Lainey . :0)

1 comment:

Deven and Lisa said...

..."the defiant cancer butt kicking Lainey"... I love that! Go Lainey!