Saba Beats Cancer

Getting scans today. Got the MRI yesterday. Blood work this morning. PET scan this PM - will post when I get them. Best case - really knocked the cancer out - worst case which I hear every day is it popped up somewhere else. So think good thoughts all my amazing supporter - I will post immediately after.

Well sort - of - my MTX level is 0.07 which is of course below the 0.1 level so I can get out of here. It's all down to the paperwork now.  Just have to wait for them to find a doctor to write a discharge note and then they have to give me my self-care directions. But I am packed and ready to go. Lee is here and we just play the waiting game - which is always kind of funny because they need the beds so bad you think they would have a team of pushers getting us out the door. Looking at the timeline - going sumo definitely helped.  We are out of here a little faster so I will take it. Never going to get the 48 hour turn around it seems but at least we did better on the drugs this time. So a few days off. The good thing is they can look at my blood work on this fine Monday which my docs like. And the blood is looking mighty fine right now. So this starts the big week: MRI is Wednesday - looking at the skull - is it healing?  PET scan -the biggy - Thursday morning...

We went in for the first oncology visit at Methodist with Dr. Heyne and things were going well.  He pointed out the positives that my blood work was normal and then examined the lymph lumps and said gotta biopsy those bad boys and it turns out we wear the same underwear that is pretty awesome -  but then he finishes with  - 'you have a potential blood clot in your brain and I really don't feel comfortable sending you home with a potential stroke. He sent the MRI to the Methodist neurologist Dr. Volpe who concurred with him on the MRI that it was not a good thing to have a "p ossible partial dural venous sinus thrombosis which could account for the heterogeneous flow in the dural sinuses." So here we are - I will cop to the fact that the double vision thing was starting to bother me and was worried about driving like that.  So Lee and I were glad they recommended getting that fixed first. The sharp stabbing headaches and neck pain also are not fun.  So off ...

My doc told me about the seminal vesicle (insert bad joke here) - but apparently this last piece of the MRI never got posted. And I can tell you the right iliac crest is killin me today.  (true fact though I had to google half this crap again).  My orginial doc does not believe the large lumpkin is a lymph because it creepily soft and floating which is not the way a lymph will be.  Hope the get it out and biopsy soooooooon. EXAMINATION: MRI PELVIS W WO CONTRAST CLINICAL HISTORY: R22.40 Localized swelling mass and lump unspecified lower limb, To evaluate soft tissue mass TECHNIQUE: Multiplanar multisequence MR images of the pelvis were obtained pre- and post intravenous administration of Gadolinium. COMPARISON: No prior  IMPRESSION: 1. Extensive osseous metastatic disease of the pelvis, sacrum and proximal femurs is noted. There is a large lesion in the anterior right iliac crest with large soft tissue component. 2. Enlarged inguinal lymph nodes the larg...

A couple of people on the team said - what is it - hard to describe without the diagnosis so here is what the MRI peeps said.  My Doc warned me that reading it sounds like I am done - but that's their job.  Main positives are the fact they aren't screwing up bones and such and the brain is not affected.  Woo hoo - I have spent a lot of time cutting and pasting words into the google to figure it out So here it is: EXAMINATION: MRI THORACIC SPINE WO CONTRAST CLINICAL HISTORY: M54.2 Cervicalgia, M54.12 Radiculopathy cervical region, neck pain radiating to left upper extremity COMPARISON: None. Frontal and lateral views of the thoracic spine were obtained. FINDINGS: There is a metastatic lesion in the posterior T2 vertebral body measuring 1.4 cm. There is some enhancement in the bilateral T3 rib head regions and extension to the facets. There is another metastatic lesion at T4 measuring 14 mm. These are both confined to the vertebral bodies without extraosseous e...