Another bump in the road

The trips we take to CTCA never EVER seem to turn out like we expect!  No matter how apprehensive I feel when we are having scans, the results are never as bad as I imagine they could be, nor are they quite as good as I would like for them to be.  This trip was no exception.

We are home - no treatment this time.  The scans showed the spots in the rib are still shrinking in size - still due to the radiation treatments.  The nodules in the lungs have increased ever so slightly, which was going to result in an increase in the amounts of the chemo drugs this time, if we had received a treatment.  The real unexpected piece of news was that there is some inflammation in the colon, where the original surgery was. The CEA has jumped up, which can happen for a variety of reasons, one being inflammation in the colon.  Dr. Neelam thinks this inflammation is due to one or more of the chemo drugs and since Arnie has had some significant gastric distress over the past several weeks, she feels there is a connection there. 

She had us schedule a colonoscopy to determine exactly what is going on.  Further treatment will depend on those results. 

I am not sure exactly how I feel about this.  I want to be strong and not allow Satan to back me into a corner and beat me up with fear and depression. 

My son emailed me this scripture which I find to be very comforting. This tells me that God will take care of us.

"Listen to me, O house of Jacob,
all the remnant of the house of Israel,
who have been borne by me from before your birth,
carried from the womb;
even to your old age I am he,
and to gray hairs I will carry you.
I have made, and I will bear;
I will carry and will save."(Isaiah 46:3-4 ESV)

Please continue to remember us in your prayers.