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By Daniel McNabb

I thought that I would write this quick post to let you all know what’s going on. We just got back from the hospital after seeing the Radiation Oncologist Dr. F “Here we are again!” but the mood turned to a more serious nature. The resident Oncologist and Dr. F explained to Teresa and I that that the new tumor at the spine in her lower back was a danger to rupturing her major artery and could cause what we and the Docs call a “catastrophic” event. The same tumor has caused a blood clot in the vein from the kidney. They also examined the tumor that bled into her leg and decided to radiate that one too. I said that while we are here why don’t you radiate the one in her neck messing with her arm not working. They said ok, we’ll radiate that one too.

So, an hour later Teresa was in radiation doing a simulation for the three different areas that get radiation. On top of all this Dr. R the chemo doc, doesn’t want the chemo treatment to be held up (neither do we). Chemo on Wednesday will continue as normal, with next week being the chemo week off, Teresa will get the radiation treatment for 6 rounds.

Tomorrow we will check into the hospital at 10am as an outpatient to have the procedure of putting a screen in her vein to stop the clot from breaking away and going to the heart or lungs. I am told that we will be there all day for observation, the employees, all 12,000 of them at OHSU are getting to know us pretty good.

Today is the first day that we have our home health care aide here at the house. It’s a blessing to have the help for 4 hours a day, to bad she can’t make the dinner.

So it all boils down to this. The CT scan showed some growth in the left lung but not the right, some new tumors but not any substantial growth in the existing ones. Maybe the little bit of chemo that keeps getting interrupted did make a difference.

Please, keep us in your prayers, and please comment right here. We would like to hear from you even if you don’t have much to say.

God Bless.