3 more months

Friday we saw the Radiation doctor.  She has always seemed like she would give you an honest yet caring answer to your questions.  We discussed the results of the CT, MRI, and even looked at one of my previous PET scans.  Her view is that the tumor is "dead" although we won't exactly know that until we have a PET scan.  However if you do a PET scan to early all the inflimation caused by radiation can show up as active cancer even though it is not.  In her mind having one around Thankgiving would be an appropriate time to let any inflamation calm down.  

When asked if waiting until November was to long she also stated that I have "A very slow growing kind of cancer" so she's pleased to see there is nothing new in the time period since surgery and radiation.  I also asked "If there is no active cancer, where does the Radioactive sugars go?"  That's when she pulled up the PET scan and showed us the image of what lights up.  Your brain, heart among other things light up.  You could see my tumor before as a red spot in the middle of greeen. 

Per the tumor, She stated the body may absorb it or it may not in which case it stays where it is as dead tissue.  That didn't concern her.  I will be o.k. with it being there as long as I can be convinced there are no living cells.

So as I stated on the last post we are praying for a scan where it shows "No active cancer".  Until then I get 3 months of normal living.