All Clear

It's been a few days since we talked about the C word. News hasn't been so great, so I haven't wanted to blog about it. It turns out that the second shadowing found on the MRI was another tumor. Not the news we wanted to hear. This meant that now, we are dealing with more drastic surgery. It also increased the risk that the cancer has spread to other organs. Usually the doctor's don't do any fact finding scans prior to surgery, because it doesn't really chance the course of treatment at this point. What it would do would change my mom's peace of mind, which is totally worth it. I am so glad that my mom has such awesome doctors who agreed and even helped her get her insurance to cover it all.

It was a long weekend waiting for the tests to be done. Finally, Monday came and it was time to perform tests that would show us whether the cancer had spread to three of the four places it would spread from breast cancer. They tested brain, lungs and liver. It was a tense day, waiting and waiting for the results to come back. I finally got a call from my mom at around 4:15pm, brain is clear! While I was excited to hear that, but the brain is the last place the cancer would go, so I was still anxious to hear about the lung and liver. Finally, a simple text at 4:50pm, all clear. All clear. Two little words that made my life so much better. The cancer hasn't spread to lungs, liver or brain.

Like I mentioned before, there are four places the breast cancer would spread. The other and most likely location? Bone. Due to the contrast that must be used for the bone scan possibly interfering with the contrast used for the surgery, they can't do the bone scan yet. So, we are still a little worried about that. But, the good news is that mom's oncologist said he could look at the bones a little bit in the rest of the scans that were performed, and they tentatively looked okay too. What a blessing!

So, although today is surgery day, which no one ever wants, we are excited. We are excited that this should be the last day we ever have to worry about this cancer. This bad dream ends today. Prayers are welcome and always needed, but today we are going nip this entire thing in the butt.

Love you momma!