Since my last post, Brian had to have a bone marrow aspiration and biopsy on November 8, as our oncologist wanted to see how the cancer was responding to the chemo. Well, yesterday, we got a personal phone call from Dr. McCarron to say that she was absolutely thrilled to tell us that Brian's tumor burden which was at 40% on his bone marrow biopsy in August, had come down to 1% which basically means the cancer is now in remission!!! She actually seemed quite surprised it had come down that low, and as is usual with Brian, that is quite "unusual and rare", BUT we will take that side of unusual and rare!
I have no doubt that all the prayers and positive thoughts from all our family and friends and Brian's heavenly angels have played a big role in his recover from this! We are so very very grateful for this outcome. We still have to finish up the chemo which will be a total of 5 weeks from now as long as none are missed in the meantime. That will take us to December 28th as his last one. Dr. McCarron said she was going to be sending these results off to the stem cell doctors, but after Brian and I discussed it yesterday, Brian has definitely decided against stem cell. We are just going to continue with the chemo route for the future. Stem cell is very risky and Brian was just not feeling comfortable about it, not that I blame him. We will support whatever Brian feels is best for him.
We have a followup appointment with Dr. McCarron on December 5, 2016, and we will see what her plans are for the future, which I assume with be some form of maintenance therapy and close followup; and we now hope that Brian will have a long remission.
So our short term plans will be to book a last minute vacation sometime in January just to get away for a week somewhere that has a warm climate (Brian's wish!) and just enjoy some much deserved down-time and relaxation.
We have had the best early Christmas present we could ask for!
Feeling blessed right now.....
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