Had a CT scan last Wednesday (routine- it's been about six months since I began chemo and four since my last scan) and got the results today- very good! Nothing new showed up, no new tumors, growths, etc... and the existing tumors had all shrunk by around/little more than half since September. According to the docs this really was/is the about the best results they could hope for or expect; they'd have been satisfied if things had remained status quo from the September scan, so to see that level of continued shrinkage is encouraging. Equally, they seem pleased with my response to and tolerance of the chemo regimen; from what I was told many patients receiving this regimen have a difficult time making it through as many rounds as I've been through- yeah, I'm tough as hell! (Much if it probably has to do with my age- relatively younger than the average colon cancer patient- I have no other health issues, and I do take decent care of myself, diet and exercise, etc... Tho' I have had to resign myself to running on an indoor treadmill this winter, dammit.)
Obviously I am very pleased with what they told me but at times it's still a bit of a conundrum as well; how can I feel this well, this healthy, this normal yet have what, by everything I've heard, read, been told, etc... is a pretty advanced cancer (stage 4 is as high as they go)? Feeling well
definitely beats the alternative, and I don't obsessively dwell upon it all but it does cause some confusion, a kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop mentality. It is something always in the back of my mind.
But anyway, pretty good news- now if we get just as good news around 6pm or so this coming Sunday, with a Pats win over the Ravens!
