This is a really hard post to write, which is why it’s taken me so long to write it.
On July 1, I went in for the next followup CT scan.
The cancer is back, with a vengeance.
On this scan, the tiny little nodules I had have grown. A lot. The one that was 1 mm is now 5 mm. The one that was 3 mm is now 15 mm. Two of them are now 16 mm, and the remaining one that I had is 12 mm. And I have 4 new ones between 2 mm and 4 mm.
They are in both lungs.
So I’m back in chemo. My first session was today. I can’t have the same drugs I had before, because of the lifetime limit on them. So today I got my first dose of Gemcitabine (Gemzar). Next Monday I go in again, and get both that one and Docetaxel (Taxotere). Then I have a week off.
This patten repeats again, and then I have another CT Scan, so we can see if it’s working.
The side effects are pretty much what they were before. (And I just got my hair *back*!)
On the good side, I was starting to feel really good again, so I’m going into this from a fairly healthy starting point.
I’m not giving up. I still intend to beat this.
But that’s where we are now.
I’ll let you know the results of the next scan when we have them. It’ll be seven or eight weeks.
Thanks again for all your support.
Here we go again.