Medical stuff...

So here is the latest. Wednesday the 3rd of January I have my last "big" chemo treatment. (Avastin, Gemzar, Taxoel) and then I get the Gemzar again Monday the 8th. After a week off from treatment we will conduct another CT scan to check progress. We are hoping to maintain no growth and perhaps a miracle of shrinkage or better yet disappearance of lung and liver lesions. Then we are going with a "maintance" plan to give my body a bit of a break from the chemo. A treatment of Avastin once every three weeks is the plan. We are still considering Tarceva, a lung cancer drug, but my original lump tested positive for one test and negative for another. Please remember that all other testing is negative, which limits the drugs that work on my cancer. However, if I do include the Tarceva in my treatment, I will be the first in the US to do so. So there it is. I am feeling good in short spurts. Little pain. Mentally, human contact is always a good thing.