14th Week of Treatment

I can't believe that it has been 14 weeks of treatment.  It has gone fast but at the same time it is slow.  I now only have 4 weeks left of chemo.  About 29 days if we want to be exact about it. haha  I'm so excited to be able to not have to worry about infection, being able to eat fresh produce, and starting to have my hair grow back!  I really do miss my hair, I thought I would get used to not having it but alas, that is not true.  I'm still hoping what little of my eyebrows are left will hold on for this last month.  I guess that is one good thing about having thick eyebrows, they last longer than people who have tweezed them thin!

Jonathan and I went and met with the radiologist on Wednesday last week.  He was impressed that I was doing so well going through R-CHOP and that I was working as much as I am.  He showed us the pictures of the PET scans of the before and after 3 rounds of chemo.  It was crazy to see how much of a difference there was.  He said it is about 95% gone.  I was so excited to see that and hear that.  It makes such a difference when it is said like that then when I was originally told the new dimensions of it.  The radiation will go in and kill the microscopic cancer cells that are left over improving my chance that the cancer will not come back.

I will be starting radiation, hopefully, a couple weeks sooner than what I had originally thought.  September 17th is my last round of Chemo, on September 26th I will go in to where I will have radiation and get a CT scan so they know where to shoot the beams at.  Then if I'm feeling well enough Dr. Kelly said that I would probably start radiation the first week in October.  I will have to go 5 days a week for 3.5 to 4 weeks.  Which means that I should be done with all my treatments by the end of October!  Woohoo