PET scan

Today we went for the regular bloods, chat with Dr P and Chemo- dad's bloods are great, his result from the PET scan came through and I am happy to say that the cancer has NOT spread anywhere else. " Everything looks good" said Dr. P. "it (the cancer) is only located in the lung." A sigh of relief that this small cell lung cancer has not spread to the liver, kidney, the other lung or anywhere else in the brain (3 tumors in the head is enough, no?!).

Dad has been steady in weight, although his eye sight has been wonky on him, he seems to be handling it very well. HIs appetite has been good, he puts up a fight to eat but then finishes everything on his plate. He has little or no side effects from the chemo except his hair falling out. His head is tender from the high doses of Radiation that he had but apart from that... I'm happy with the progress. The Dr.'s seem to be too.

This is the third round of chemo out of 6- that means on Thursday we are half way there! It seems like forever since we've started on June 1st, 2010. It feels like everything is running smoothly, that nothing seems to be going wronge, I am waiting for something to happen to ruin it all. That always seems to be the way- however, there will be nothing that will let me get down about how things are going with dad.

I feel confident that dad could over come this bastard of a disease BUT the statistical odds are against him. He's a stubburn man and will prove everyone wronge. And he will too!

On that note, I hope that he will prove it too!

Chemo again tomorrow, and Thursday.