Had written up some notes a while back but all felt too premeditated. Just wanted to give you all an update (Previous: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
She ended Chemo about 2 months ago but it got pretty rough. She was in the hospital 3 times over the course of the treatment and had to have an emergency surgery at the end. We had wanted to avoid radiation due to the side effects on a younger woman (early menopause, etc), but have now gone forward with that treatment. She has really been so much better since that emergency surgery, better than she has been in the 2 years before we had the diagnosis.
Just as I was writing this, got some not great news, she was at her treatment and was told that her CEA number (a cancer indicator in blood) is back up. It is not definitive and that test was from last week, so they took another blood draw today and will be waiting for those results. If the number remains high, then will have do another CT scan ... Have felt that we were on the back-end of all this, but ...
Plan has been that the first surgery would be in Jan/Feb. A bit shaken at the moment by this CEA news so going to stop here for now.
Thank you all for being so great, have nice weekend.