Good day everyone,
I (Jennifer) went to MD Anderson for my 6th month check up today. They took 9 tubes of blood. Got some blood work back today. All looks good. I will get my PCR, FISH and some other blood test results back in 2-3 weeks. If all looks good, I don’t have to go back to MDA for a year as long as I continue to go to my regular Dr in clear lake every three months. I told my family that I “graduated” from going every six months to a year. First time I have gotten to go a whole year since I started this battle. Yay! I will celebrate 7 year victory in March. Kicked that leukemia butt!
My Dad (Dennis) also saw his doctor today about his esophagus cancer. Even though all the test came back Cancer Free in December, he has been coughing more, having hard time swallowing and has lost 20 pounds in a month and still has no energy even after two months of no treatment. So he had a cscan done last Friday. Today Dr said he has some spots in his lungs but they do not look like cancer! It may be some scar tissue from his two rounds of chemo/radiation. The dr also feels my dad has bronchitis and put him on meds. He will run more test in a month instead of waiting until middle of March like was plan in Dec. The dr just wants to be on the safe side since my dad has already done two rounds of treatment. So dad will get several cscan in February. Dr said he is not sure why dad is having issuing eating but said if it continues, they will need to go in and do surgery on his esophagus. The dr told us that with the extreme about of treatment my dad has had and how bad the cancer was, there may be some scar tissue in the esophagus. We were so thankful to hear that there were no cancer cells in the lungs.