Figured I'd give you all a bit of an update on my wife (Maryse. Her name is Maryse)'s condition:
She's doing WAY better. There, update over. Move along, now, nothing to see here...
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Oh FINE, if you insist.
So, she was supposed to get a follow-up appointment with the oncologist on 13 February. In preparation for that, she got a blood test the previous week. Two days later, she gets a call from the oncology department saying the appointment's been postponed to 3 May (yes, May). Every health care professional we've talked to (nurses, family doctor, other cancer patients and specialists) agrees: That means the blood results are so good that there's no point in making her come in (we're roughly 2.5 hours away by car) just to tell her "everything's looking really good, things keep improving, we'll stay the course for another three months and then re-evaluate". Which is what we figured immediately, but it's nice to have confirmation.
While I wish the doctor (or at least the nurse) would've told us that directly and we didn't have to go looking for answers (we got definite proof with Maryse's family doctor, with whom she had an appointment a few days later, who looked at the results and saw a clear trend in the right direction once again), the news is so good it doesn't even matter. Her body' fighting and winning. She's got a PET scan on 15 March, so we'll know just how badly she's beating cancer then.
Add to that her back getting stronger by the day (still fragile, of course, she does have a damaged vertebra, and one that's QUITE load-bearing), morale is sky-high right now. Gotta love it when hard work pays off.
I love posting in this thread.
