((Meara)) I'm sorry I hope that your mom has some awesome Dr's and outcomes.
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
askye - May 26, 2023 9:51:19 am PDT #22384 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
askye - May 26, 2023 10:26:35 am PDT #22385 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
I got an email from the legal assistant of my lawyer. Workers comp is offering a settlement but my lawyer is out of the office through next week so I won't meet with her until June 5th to talk about it.
We have the funeral today and M wanted to be a the visitation as long as possible but we ended up going to the location of the funeral...which is like 20 mins away, realized the mistake and are now almost to the funeral home. We got there to the funeral home. Almost got t boned by a tow truck running through a red when we were trying to turn left with the light we had.
M decided not to stay as long as I thought he would...which is really good because I was feeling uncomfortable. I saw two men with 3 Percenter tattoos. One was on the back of his hand and another on a guy's fore arm.
DavidS - May 26, 2023 10:52:01 am PDT #22386 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Dr. Hendifar took us through the scan. Nothing dramatic but he was pleased with the results.
No new tumors or growth. It's early in this process and the results take time but the bigger tumors that he measured did look smaller.
Not definitive. It depends on where you measure them. But one that was 36mm looked more like 34. That was true with several nodes. Slightly smaller.
Certainly nothing was bigger.
One mass looked different in composition as if the drugs were affecting it. (It starves the cells.)
The effects should be more pronounced if it continues to work and the next scan is late July.
Tom Scola - May 26, 2023 10:55:07 am PDT #22387 of 30000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
36cm
Oh, dear God, I hope that's a typo.
dcp - May 26, 2023 11:01:12 am PDT #22388 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Slightly smaller. Certainly nothing was bigger.
Tentative "Yay!"
Sounds better than the results from the previous regimen, anyway, so that's good.
Jesse - May 26, 2023 11:03:22 am PDT #22389 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Continuing to keep fingers crossed!!
DavidS - May 26, 2023 11:04:26 am PDT #22390 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Probably mm Tom.
Steph L. - May 26, 2023 11:07:09 am PDT #22391 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
David, that sounds good for this early in the treatment, especially compared to the previous treatment.
-t - May 26, 2023 11:11:12 am PDT #22392 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
OK, I know that's not defiitively excellent news, but it's certainly way better than it could be so I'm happy about it! Hope the remainder of this trip is easy on you both
DavidS - May 26, 2023 11:11:37 am PDT #22393 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
David, that sounds good for this early in the treatment, especially compared to the previous treatment.
It is possible this is just what would have happened just by changing from FOLFOX to FOLFIRI but I don’t think so.
They are more aggressively attacking in this round with Avastin (monoclonal antibody that starved the tumor of blood) as well as the study drug which is highly targeted to this tumor mutation.