Recent Scan Results
Kristi had both head and full body scans on Monday. There isn’t much to wax philosophical about. The doctors called it fairly stable and want her to continue with the immunotherapy treatments. At this point there isn’t much other choice. Unfortunately, headaches have taken over as the most prominent problem. Some good news is her back pain has become less of a problem in recent weeks. We shan’t even try to venture a guess as to why. She saw her pain management PA today who thoroughly discussed the headaches, prescribed a new drug to try, and will reach out to Dr Ganjoo to fill her in on the problem. Although it may not seem like it from the tone of this post, we were pretty happy about seeing some shrinkage of tumors, especially in the lungs. Having cancer is one thing, suffering from side effects of it or the treatment is quite another. She does have days without any headaches — which we relish. As usual now, we ran the results thr...