Hi everyone,
Yes, it’s true. Another hospital visit report. I just can’t get enough of hospitals! This was my regular three-week cycle visit to
Rush but without the chemo (YAY!) It did
include a CAT scan of the lungs. Same
old. Same old. A few more lesions and a
few are a little bigger but nothing they are concerned about. A new 8 mm spot found in the liver. Dr. Bonomi is not at all concerned about that either. He is very happy I got on the new
drug and has a really good feeling we will start seeing improvement soon.
Between the cycles of the two hospitals, I will be spending
even more time at hospitals since both oncologists want to keep tabs on me.
Rush is doing all the labs and scans for Sparrow and sending copies to them
there. I also have to have weekly labs taken
and sent to Sparrow (the weeks I’m not at Rush to do them) to monitor how my
system is handling the new drug. That
goes weekly for the first month and
bi-monthly the second month. I have
those done at Highland Park Hospital.
My next trip to Lansing is Friday, October 23 and then on
Monday, October 26 I have lab work and a consultation with Dr. Bonomi at Rush. They think that time would be too soon to see
any results so we are postponing scans for both the lungs and the brains until November
23. Then I’ll have a whopper of a visit
to Rush for all the scans and hopefully a very happy and thankful Turkey Day.
I am not planning to send another blog update like this
until after that November 23 scanapalooza unless some specific news comes up in the meantime.
Be well and be happy and have a great Halloween!
2 comments:
Yes, it's Hospitalooza! Wow, sounds like great coordination between Sparrow & Rush. Thanks for the update. Keep on truckin' DonnaLee. Love & hugs :)
Love it, Peg! Hospitalooza! Just think, DonnaLee, each visit is like going to see the next band. Ok it's a stretch but I'll keep working on thinking of more "fun" ways to look at these important visits. All will be signs of progress! Love, Sue
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