A week later I had an appointment with my oncologist to go over the results. After a week of some very anxious feelings by some people we waited patiently on a very busy afternoon for our turn to talk with the doctor. When he came into the room he told me I had a very good scan.
He quickly generalized the points of the report. He decided to focus more on the things he noticed in my CBC (complete blood count). Everything in my CBC was fairly normal. The one thing he made note of is I have a slightly elevated level of Bilirubin. Based on their test the normal is considered a 1.0 and my level was at a 1.2. He doesn't want to ignore this but he wants to make sure we watch it carefully. Our family is very familiar with bilirubin from when Leah's dad had cancer. For those of you who don't know what bilirubin is a toxin made by the liver. My doctor thought the elevated level was due to all the work done on my liver in the past 4 years. I also had a slightly enlarged spleen on my scan. My doctor believes these may be related.
At the end of my appointment my doctor said he wanted to see me in 4 months and then he said he wanted to do 1 final CT in a year. These are very good things to hear. If we feel there is another reason to see the doctor before next November then we call him. Otherwise we resume normal life until November 2017.
We were waiting for scheduling shortly after that and I was reading through the report. The one sentence that I read that surprised me is the following "No liver lesions are present." up until my scan in April there have been 2 lesions found in the liver that were just not active. Based on past conversations with my oncologist I was told I may always have these lesions and could eventually turn back to cancer.
A true miracle those two lesions are not present. Praise God for this great report and renewed Health.
-- Kent
