Friday, September 19, 2008

Praise God for his Grace and Faithfulness

To my dear family and friends,

I am so anxious to tell you about my ct scan I had on Monday the 15th of Sept. and Ron, June and Dad met with me and my oncologist Dr. Nanci on Tues. Sept 16th to listen what the Drs. had to say about my results from my scan.
I was praying that I will continue to hear positive results from my Dr. since that was my last chemo therapy
Yes!!Praise God. Many of my previous effusion is mildly deminished in size compared to the previous study and no new nodules are identified. One of the lesions on my upper left lobe measured 5.6 x 4.0 on my last scan in July and is now 2.9 x 2,7 cm. We were all excited to hear about the decease in size, since Ron has been researching the internet and heard about a different method through his Dr. friends and asked my Dr Nanci, what she thought of this method called intervention Radiology ( Radio frequency ablation) which I guess zaps the cancer if it measures 3.0 or less. So Ron immediately made an appointment with the specialist in this method and I see him on Tues. Sept 23rd already.

Now that the chemo's are finished for now I do hope my nausea and tired feeling slowly go away and I will feel like doing more 1st thing is get back to a little exercise slowy to try ot get my appetite back and put on some meat on my skinny bod.

We will continue to let you know if I am a good candidate for this thing called ablation and if I can that will be good. That is the latest for now and pray that all goes well. Thank you all for all you love and support, which gives me so much hope knowing God is listening to all your prayers.

Much love from me and my family,

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Praise God my last chemo for awhile

Hi to all my dear family and friends,

Thought I would connect with you while I am feeling quite wonderful before going in for chemo tomorrow the 5th of Sept. I would like to share with all of you how normal I have been feeling with enough energy to attend church, twice in August. How nice it was to see the church family after about 6 months of absence. Felt very emotional seeing so many smiling faces, and especially the prayers for my healing. God is always here with me, I can feel his presence and Gods strength to pull me through.

As for my social time, the last couple of weeks I have been eating better so I have been enjoying lunch or dinner out with friends to put on more weight before tomorrow. I still eat funny stuff so I order very strange things from the menu like side of coleslaw and mashed potato and I love it. the other day I had fried oyster for appetizer and that was it and it was good. Usually I am happy just with appetizer size meals and it fills me up. But it has been fun the last couple of weeks to have my white blood cells high enough to go out.

So folks I really had a great Labor day with the whole family together to enjoy labor day from 11:30 in the morning with swimming, hot dogs, hamburgers and all the trimmings and since Robbi made some lettuce wrap with ground pork we enjoyed eating all day and Some of them enjoyed the UCLA game and I will get Brittany's help in showing you some of the fun pictures we took with activities going on throughout our house. Will let you know my progress soon when I feel well after the chemo. Much love and thanks to all for your love, cards and prayers. til later much love dottie and family.