I am so sorry to all - I went straight to work from his appointment. The news is not all bad... I teared up a bit this morning with the news. The DC (Damn Cancer) is not advancing at the rate at which it had been. The lymph nods are shrinking pretty good. To give it a number- Tracy said 50% gone. THAT'S GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) The tumor on the colon is SIGNIFICANTLY smaller as well... this is the reasons for his RP (real poops), because it has gone down far enough to allow RP through! THAT'S GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) The colon and such has not forgotten HOW to work. THAT'S GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) The DC has not spread to lungs - his chest is clear - when I saw it months ago... it looked like a whole lot of grape bunches in there.
THAT"S GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) The bad news... the liver has gotten 2 more lesions on it. :(
we are NOT giving up, we are regrouping and switching things up a bit. He will no longer be taking Erbitux weekly. He will switched to Folfurry as opposed to Folfox in 2 weeks. The Erbitux wasn't making a huge change and Jimmy wasn't tolerating it well. Hopefully he will now get some of his energy and appetite back. The Folfurry will then be coupled with Panatumamap (pardon the misspelling, I haven't had time to research this yet) in a month or so. This is similar to the Erbitux, along the lines of Rituxan. We will not be going for surgery as soon as we would like- but Dr. DeGreen (Tracy) is not taking that option away from us at this point.
Love and hugs to all.....
