I know I’ve talked before about the agony of waiting for test results. I had a CT last week and then had eight days waiting for results. Somehow the weekend is worse, less going on work-wise and more time to ponder.
Last week I went out to a field site and quickly overheated. The first time out of the truck I forgot my cooling towel and the second I forgot my water. I ended up having to go sit in the truck in the AC. As much as I’m feeling ok in the new normal, theoretical exercise is much easier than actual exercise(!).
The mosquitos have been HUNGRY I went to a local refuge with a researcher and fed them. Bug spray kept them off until you let up on the button. They were ferocious. That's Hurricane Hannas lasting present. I had a few branches lost to the hurricane, hungry skeeters, and lawn growing WAY WAY too fast.
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So my CT scan showed continued reduction (though slow) of the tumors (yay), and a blood clot (boo). One of the drugs I was on is a risk factor for blood clots, as is the chemo port, and the tumors, so that is a triple threat for blood clots. One of those things is readily controllable, and I have to stop the hormone therapy drugs that were working. If not for the COVID we'd probably remove the port, but we'll wait for COVID to be less pressing before removing the port unless the blood clots persist. Going forward we're switching to another hormone therapy and adding in a blood thinner as soon as they get the prescriptions in. There's a chance we could go back to these drugs that worked in the future, but I have to be off them for several months. There is optimism that I will have good results with the other drugs as well. The nodes in the lungs are stable, that was the big worry and the reason for the quicker CT scan.
Blood work continues to be good.
That's the news, such as it is.
