Saturday, June 6, 2009

All Clear

Big sigh of relief. Jumping up and down. Hugs and kisses all around. Prayers of thanks. All clear.

Dr. Minow called about 15 minutes ago. Reese's PET scan showed a "complete resolution" of the two lymph node tumors. Poof, they're back to normal size, thanks to the chemotherapy. He did see some mild lung fibrosis on the scan, which is the scarring we were worried about from the Bleomycin. However, he said it should resolve and just needed to be watched with no treatment necessary.

The next step will be a blood test on June 22nd (Happy Birthday to me -- what a great gift!) to make sure Reese's tumor markers are still normal, and then an appointment to go over everything a week after that. From there on out, he'll be back on surveillance. God has been so good to us. Of course we would have walked through whatever challenge he laid out for us, but we're just so happy we don't have to do another round of chemotherapy. Reese might even have enough energy to break out the cake and party horns now.

11 comments:

  1. What a joy to read... "complete resolution"!!! We are rejoicing with you!!! Dancing and jumping for joy in our neck of the woods...
    Blessed be the Name of the Lord.

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  2. I am SO SO happy for all of you! That is wonderful news! Hugs and kisses to all of you! Love you all!!!

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  3. That is great to hear!!!
    From Diana and Charlie

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  4. Praising the Lord!!!!!

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  5. We are so happy for all you. My eyes are filled with tears of joy for Reese. Praise God for seeing you through this difficult time and for bringing you such joyful news!
    Love,
    Allison, Jason & Shawnee

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  6. Great news guys. We have been praying for all of you. Is it to soon to start making fun of Reese again?

    Love,
    RT, Kate,
    Emma, Ethan & Mason

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  7. Rejoicing with you all, what wonderful news, we serve such a great and mighty God!!!
    Kerry (BCS)

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  8. Congratulations to your whole family!!

    This is really encouraging for me too, because I'm hoping for similar results from my June 30th PET scan. We'll see (sample sizes of 1) if there is a difference between BEP x 3 and EP x 4.

    (Coincidentally my birthday is June 27th.)

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  9. I'm looking for a follow up post! It's past the 22nd. How's Reese doing? I hope you continue to have great news!!! Happy 4th of July weekend!

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