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Posted 2022-03-01T04:59:00Z

Winter-Spring 2022 Update

Well it's that time again-my 6 month scans were done last week."Is this even possible?", "Wow!", "Amazing!"-Some responses from my family when I told them about my Feb 22nd MRI and Dr Taylor's (my oncologist) interpretation. Enough with the suspense-I'll get to it already: Dr Taylor said that this scan actually looked IMPROVED as compared to my last scan! While I had been manifesting so much positivity since my last scans-visualizing this positive trend continuing. In the back of my mind, I didn't believe that I could get this lucky twice! Dr Taylor thinks that my body has been clearing out scar tissue and dead tumor cells over the last few years. In brain cancer, remission is not a word I had ever heard. As I understand it, there can be so many other metabolic activities going on in the brain beyond tumor growth/shrinkage, it's very difficult to definitively say that there are zero tumor cells present in the brain. Since I have a hard time explaining my situation in laypersons terms, I asked Dr Taylor if she would call my case a remission based on the last few MRIs, and she said Yes, your brain seems to have "calmed down" from possible over-treatment - radiation collateral damage. [...]