Decisions decisions...

We are finally home tonight after a very long day! This morning Sean had his first actual physical therapy session. He is doing pool therapy, so while all of us are out here freezing are butts off in the snow, he gets to hang out in a nice warm pool! Well, I guess it may be not that great for him, because he actually has to exersize, but....! After physically therapy, we had to make the long trip down to University of Michigan to make a plan of action. We discussed many treatment options, but as I was saying before, not to many options left in Michigan. There are a few chemotherapies that Sean would be able to do, but I think Sean and I want to lean away from chemotherapies and stick with immunotherapies since he seemed to have a better response with the immunotherapy. Dr. Lao discussed the scan results with us, but could not base to much off of those results, as he did not have Sean's prior scan reports to compare it to. Gerber is supposed to be overnighting all of his reports to Dr. Lao, so I believe we will discuss that over the phone about how much his tumor really has grown later this week. Sean's cancer was very aggressive before, but since doing IL-2, it is still contained to his left lung and the tumor seems to growing at a much slower pace now! IL-2 did not do enough for Sean to be able to continue it though. The plans that Dr. Lao would like to do is have Sean wait another 4 weeks or so, then do a rescan since IL-2 can have a delayed reaction sometimes. I am not sure we want to go this route, as it seems to be such a long time with no treatment, since he has not been on treatment for 2 months already. I think the decision we have made so far, is that we want to call NCI (National Cancer Institute(in Maryland)- cancer.gov) tomorrow. We will see what they have available to Sean and he will then probably set up an appointment for his initial exam there to see if he will qualify for anything. I will let everyone know when an actual plan is in place! Thanks everyone for the continued support for Sean!

~Nicole~