4/11/12 - Here we go again

In early January, we were super stoked that after 3 years of clean scans, John as able to go off his cancer drugs. He was running and working out and eating well and happy and healthier than ever. A couple weeks ago, he started having some pain and a drop in energy level. He went to the doc who diagnosed it as gas and said to come back in 2 weeks if it persisted. Persist, it did, and John went back the next week and they sent him for an x-ray and scan. That showed a couple spots that concerned that docs so he had a PET scan on Monday. We went in today to get the results. 3 tumors have shown up. They are smaller than the last one, but considering how quickly they showed up after he went off medication, the growth is quite amazing. Our surgery doc was dumbfounded. He brought up the scan from Dec. 30 and said he had been through it looking for anything they could have missed. There was just nothing there. So, we will be resuming the Tommy the Tumor blog next week as we march through this battle. We are lucky that we found it fast, lucky JJ is in so much better shape this time, lucky that we have a supportive workplace, lucky to have docs we trust, lucky to have good friends, and lucky that we have a solid relationship. We got this.

But just in case the pizza and beer after the doc last time was good luck, we did it again this time.