So, I haven't written any blog updates with regard to my health lately. Up until last week, there hasn't been much to write. Last Tuesday we received the results from my latest CT scan. In this case, bigger is not better. The reults showed that all of the tumor areas are increasing in size and areas that were almost imperceptible on the last scan are now full blown growths. What does this mean for me? I am down to four treatment options:
1) Do nothing and let nature run it's course.
2) Go back to the previous therapy I was on
3) Go to a third (and final) line of chemotherapy
4) Take a "hail Mary" pill for which I tested negative for the protien that it inhibits. (Some doctors have reported success in administering this to patients who tested negative.
Needless to say, it was bad news. I'd been doing so well for so long that I'd lulled myself into a false sense of security. I feel almost the same as I did last year when I was initially diagnosed. I also feel a tad like chicken little because it feels like the sky is falling. It felt like that l,ast year too, but I'm still here and am not feeling too bad. Yes, I'm shorter of breath. Yes, I get fatigued more easily. Yes I'm coughing more, but other than those things I don't feel any different than I have over the past year.
I have chosen to do the third line therapy in hopes of a positive response but I'm not going to start it until Miranda starts school in the fall. In the meantime, it feels a little more imperative that I get some things done that I want to do. I think you know what that means...motorcycle trip! I'm sitting in my tent writing this on my phone on the banks of Lake Huron. I am riding my motorcycle to Washington (state), then down to San Francisco and back. This is night number 1 of my month long journey. I'll be joined on the west coast by my lovely bride and awesome daughter as we travel down Highway 101 (they'll be in a cage). I have 10 days to get there.
I'll round out my travels in October by hitting the southern states that I need to complete my motorcycle the contiguous 48 goal.
