No Results Yet

Hi Everyone-

I wanted to let you know that we haven't heard any results from the scan yet. It typically takes a couple of days - so maybe tomorrow we'll hear something. Unfortunately, Dr. Haid is on vacation this week, so any results we do hear will be "unofficial". I guess that's okay since Jim is on vacation anyway.

The scan went well. Pretty uneventful. The scan itself doesn't hurt at all. They make him drink around 24 oz. of contrast fluid over the course of an hour, and then the scan takes about 20 minutes. Lucky for us, Jim's friend Ken works in the Physical Therapy department at the hospital, so while Jim drank the contrast fluid he went down and visited Ken.

Ken is one of those people who makes you feel instantly relaxed. Something in his mannerisms and demeanor is very calming. When Jim was diagnosed and hospitalized for his surgery, Ken visited us every day. It almost seemed that when Ken walked in the room everyone let out a sigh of relief. Obviously it takes a special kind of person to work in the medical field. So it was really nice for Jim to be able to visit with Ken before the scan - sort of a calm before the storm. :)

Before he left, Jim stepped up our healthy eating battle - we now have a reverse osmosis water filter installed in our kitchen sink so that Jim (and all of us) can have the cleanest drinking water possible. Jim's cousin, Lynn, the wholistic nutritionist, recommended that we use the highest quality ingredients for everything we can. After all, healthy eating doesn't come from a can of Pringles. So when she suggested the reverse osmosis water filter, we thought it was a good idea. I am suspicious of Kohler water as it is - the filter makes me feel better. I doubt that Kohler is dumping stuff into our water supply, but then again, one never knows.

I'll post something as soon as I hear. I am nervous but I am also confident. We have completely altered our lifestyle - I am hoping that the results show on this scan. If not, we're ready to move to a different chemo regimen or try something else. He will beat it. We will beat it. We will win. I just read an interesting quote - "Anyone who says winning isn't everything never had cancer!" No kidding! I think we have the best possible medical team behind us, as well as a support system that could bounce the cancer if given the chance. We'll beat it - it's just a matter of time.