so I know some of you have been patiently waiting for an update on Brian's PET scan results....I will scan the report into the blog page later tonight so you all can read...one of the reasons I do scan the results is so you understand what we go through is real, not exaggerated or made up.
so back to the results....they were interesting...the enlarged lymphnodes did not show active lymphoma, but the smaller ones did take up the contrast....the conclusion being (direct quote from report) " overall findings remain suspicious for early recurrent malignancy"
labs show low platelets and the rest of his blood work in the normal range....
where do we go from here....we are meeting with the Oncologist from Univ Of Penn on 1/9 to see if she wants to biospy the nodes now. His local oncologist wants to wait and rescan in 3 months, expecting that if the lymphoma is active, we'll know before that because it grows very quickly.
oh and his spleen is still enlarged, but is slightly smaller then in Oct..
because of the ongoing travel and medication expenses, once I get the paperwork done this week, I'll be doing auctions again...we received 2 donations this month which we greatly appreciated to help with costs.
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