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Posted 2020-08-25T21:20:50Z

Quarantine Update #3

Should I share the good news first? Okay... 

My most recent MRI was yesterday, and I had been doing a lot of manifesting positive results. Maybe I was being greedy because I really wanted to hear about improvement rather than stable yet again. Well, that's what we heard! And this scan, my oncologist was able to compare to the April 2020 MRI, saying that the areas that were "lit up" (or previously enhancing) were enhancing less than my scans from 4 months prior. My doctor was very excited to see this. Dan had a lot of great questions about the lasting effect of the chemo I finished in March 2020. My doctor thought that there might have been some "treatment effect" or inflammation from the radiation treatment from four years ago that was finally subsiding. She also took into consideration that I've been feeling more energetic and stronger, and felt that given the improvement, we could increase the interval between my regular scans from four months to six months.  And, I have surpassed my 4 year "cancerversary"! For those of us battling cancer, we all are probably familiar with the term scanxiety. I don't think I need to explain what that means, but less frequent scans is a good thing, in that respect.[...]