Thursday - Look, Ma, no more staples

posted by Buttons Padin on May 15, 2008

It's been a big two days for those traveling down Christy's Road to Recovery. Yesterday, we had a meeting with our amazing oncologist Dr. L. and her equally spectacular nurse practitioner and sidekick Nurse R. (Can a girl be a wingman?)

Dr. L. took us through the pathology report from the surgery and told us that most of what the surgeon had removed was radiation scaring with very little tumor regrowth. (A huge, collective sigh of relief from the crowd) It does appear that the chemo we had been using worked and that the radiation treatments from the radiologist had been very successful. So what do you do with news like that? Popped a bottle of champagne and zipped down to the club for a celebratory dinner.

Today, we visited Dr. S., a mild mannered surgeon during the day who is probably a superhero at night. Dr. S. went into even greater detail about the pathology report indicating his complete support for Dr. L.’s next course of chemo treatments. Maybe not champagne again tonight, but still a few quiet cocktails are in order.

Now, this is all really great news…but we’re not out of the woods yet. As friend and RN Helen said, cancer can be treated as a chronic disease, managed on an ongoing basis. That’s a great way to look at what we’re up to. However, we’re not out of the woods yet and there are still have a lot of treatments ahead of us with more trips to the doctors and blood test labs. That being said, the bumpy road we’ve been traveling this past week has started to smooth out. We just have to look out for the potholes. Speaking of potholes, Christy’s new, red Volvo arrives tomorrow. Just wait until she’s behind the wheel again speeding down her Road to Recovery. Zoom, Zoom!

Keep the well wishes coming and thanks for all the help we’re getting and scheduled to get. Buttons