PET Scan Results

After a particularly terrible week, I turned the Covid corner well enough to get a PET scan this morning. It's basically like lying on the tongue of a very large mouth that slurps you in and out while collecting photos of your innards.

Liz and I enjoyed our first outing in far too long to review the results with the oncologist this afternoon.

Drum roll...

MY CANCER IS GONE!

No evidence of active cancer cells, and lymph nodes are all back to normal. Chemo worked.

HOORAY!

I will still have to do 3 weeks of daily radiation on the small leftover scar tissue mass in my chest. Hopefully we can start that in a couple of weeks.

The bad news is that I have pneumonia as a friendly reminder of the horrors of Covid. They gave me strong meds, hopefully I will someday be able to sleep lying down.

Overall...blessed news today. If I had enough energy to smile and lung capacity to laugh, I'd be partying hard right now.

Now will someone create a vaccine to get rid of Liz's stupid cancer for good? #goscience