Meeting with the Oncologist

Well you would probably think that the title of this post means it will be an update, a wealth of knowlege. Not really. The oncologist did not have much to say. He kept defering a lot of questions to the neuro surgeon who we will meet with tomorrow. So more to come on tomorrow's post. Plan is for Heather to get her labs drawn this week and get a CT scan at the end of this week or beginning of next week. The doc said the insurance would not pay for a PET scan since that was done 6 weeks ago. She will be having a chest and abdominal CT. The neuro surgeon will be the one in charge of following up Heather's brain images which will be done with MRI as they allow us to see more than a CT. Plus an MRi is not radiation so the less radiation heather is exposed to the better. We have an appointment for next tuesday afternoon to meet with the doc if the labs look good and the neuro surgeon has cleared Heather to restart her chemo we will start it next week.

Poor Heather had a rough night last night worrying that the doc would tell her today that there was nothing they could do for her. I knew that would not happen as this man is not a man of many words. He still has never told Heather what her life expectancy or prognosis is. He pretty much dances around it. He told Scott but never has told Heahter. THanks for leaving that job to us! I assume we really can't pin point anything until we have re imaging of her brain and know how her lesions are doing after radiation as well as seeing if her tumors in her lungs and liver have grown in the last 4-5 weeks she has been off chemo. Keep you all posted.

Thanks to this weeks visitors. Heather also has a wonderful home nurse who comes a couple times a week and her home Physical therapist will now be coming 3 times a week. She is wonderful and so sweet. SHe is so kind and loves the children too. She will definitely whip Heather into shape.