Well... Sean seen Dr.Hallmeyer in Chicago today. He was able to have CT scans on Tuesday, so we went over the results for that. Here comes the good news and bad news! Bad news- there are 2 new tumors, one on his pelvis and one in the soft tissue near his stomach area. The tumors are still fairly small and they are NOT in main organs, so that is good. The good news is that the tumor in Sean's lung has been shrinking! It used to take up about 75% of the upper left lobe and about all of the lower left lobe. Now, the entire upper left lobe is free from disease! The tumor does still cover about 2/3 of the lower left lobe, but it is still shrinking!! We are relating the 2 new tumors to the fact that Sean has not been on any treatment (except for his brain) for 3 months. We discussed options of what Sean should do next, it was a toss up between biochemo and the MDX-010 trial. We decided to go with biochemo because of the response Sean's lung has showed, reserving MDX for a later date. So... Sean is dreading the return to the long, crappy hospital stays! He will start round 3 on July 28th because they want to wait until Sean is completely off the steroids from WBR. Oh yeah, Sean also had some bloodwork done up here last week and the results came out pretty descent! His white blood count is still a little high, at about 22,000 (supposed to be between 4-10,000) and his red blood being the best since this has all started being over 12! (supposed to be around 14, but we will take what we can get as it was running around 8 for the last year!). Sean is still feeling pretty good, he has had a few headaches here and there though, nothing serious.
On our way home from Chicago today, Sean has been insisting that we have some Chicago style pizza, so we made the stop to Ginos East on Wells St. I must say, I didn't think I would care for the deep dish pizza, but it was great! Their service was great and so was the pizza! Not to mention, the pizzeria was awesome inside, having graffiti everywhere! So anyways.. thumbs up to Ginos and their Chicago style pizza.
I think Sean and I are just going to try to take these next few weeks off and enjoy summer before he returns to his treatment at the end of the month... Thanks for everyones prayers that have been sent, they are obviously working!
~nicole~
On our way home from Chicago today, Sean has been insisting that we have some Chicago style pizza, so we made the stop to Ginos East on Wells St. I must say, I didn't think I would care for the deep dish pizza, but it was great! Their service was great and so was the pizza! Not to mention, the pizzeria was awesome inside, having graffiti everywhere! So anyways.. thumbs up to Ginos and their Chicago style pizza.
I think Sean and I are just going to try to take these next few weeks off and enjoy summer before he returns to his treatment at the end of the month... Thanks for everyones prayers that have been sent, they are obviously working!
~nicole~
2 comments:
I am so sorry to hear the bad news, but......take the good news and run with it! That sounds wonderful! It sounds like Sean is still in good spirits. Keep up the good work!
Continued blessings to you and the family!
Im so sorry to hear about the bad news and so very happy to hear about the good news. Glad Sean is doing great. We are praying for Sean that God will heal him and for your family through all this.
Shannon
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