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My mom got her test results back and they are AWESOME! There is NO SIGN OF THE CANCER!!!
She was diagnosed last April with primary peritoneal carcinoma, which is closely related to, but much rarer than, ovarian cancer. When they first tested her, her CA-125 level (a tumor marker for ovarian cancer) was over 525. Normal would have been under 35. At surgery they found a rash of tiny tumors scattered throughout her peritoneum (the lining of the abdomen.)
All summer long she has endured a brutal chemotherapy regimen in which she had highly toxic drugs infused directly into her abdomen as well as into her blood stream, two out of every three weeks.
She had her last chemo treatment a couple weeks ago.
She had her CA-125 test and a CT scan last week.
CA-125 is now 31.3!
CT scan showed NO CANCER!
She gets the abdominal port removed on Monday, and she gets to go to the beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama for a well-deserved vacation, and she gets to forget about cancer for the next three months!
Maybe she gets to keep forgetting about it.
Even if, in three months, or six, or more, there are signs it is still there, the second round chemo is much less painful and difficult than the regimen she just went through. The chemo nurses told her that the regimen she was on is one of the most arduous, and many patients can't complete it. But she did. And it seems to have worked.
So yay! Yay and thank you for your prayers and love and support. If you have a noisemaker or a musical instrument or a voice, or even if you don't, make a joyful noise to heaven with me and my family. Miracles aren't only things that happen to people you don't know.
She was diagnosed last April with primary peritoneal carcinoma, which is closely related to, but much rarer than, ovarian cancer. When they first tested her, her CA-125 level (a tumor marker for ovarian cancer) was over 525. Normal would have been under 35. At surgery they found a rash of tiny tumors scattered throughout her peritoneum (the lining of the abdomen.)
All summer long she has endured a brutal chemotherapy regimen in which she had highly toxic drugs infused directly into her abdomen as well as into her blood stream, two out of every three weeks.
She had her last chemo treatment a couple weeks ago.
She had her CA-125 test and a CT scan last week.
CA-125 is now 31.3!
CT scan showed NO CANCER!
She gets the abdominal port removed on Monday, and she gets to go to the beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama for a well-deserved vacation, and she gets to forget about cancer for the next three months!
Maybe she gets to keep forgetting about it.
Even if, in three months, or six, or more, there are signs it is still there, the second round chemo is much less painful and difficult than the regimen she just went through. The chemo nurses told her that the regimen she was on is one of the most arduous, and many patients can't complete it. But she did. And it seems to have worked.
So yay! Yay and thank you for your prayers and love and support. If you have a noisemaker or a musical instrument or a voice, or even if you don't, make a joyful noise to heaven with me and my family. Miracles aren't only things that happen to people you don't know.
