I'm officially done with radiation treatments on the neck! We met with my radiation oncologist after my treatment and he thought we'd be finished, but he was presenting my case to their conference later in the day and he wanted input from other docs. Based on everything they knew, it was agreed that we should do no more treatments! Also, I'm being weened off the steroids pretty quickly - I should be off them completely next week. They say the fatigue could really set in then, so I'll have to watch it.
So now we try to figure out what's going on in the T12 region of the lower spine. We got some news on that today too, but it was the typical news we've been getting all along. They said that nothing "evil" showed up on the biopsy results, but they don't think they got enough tissue samples. What?! Everything we went through that day, and they still didn't get enough samples?
The medical/hematology doctor was presenting my case to another conference this afternoon, and we anticipate that I'll need to get another biopsy on T12, but it'll be done with a different group than the last one. We meet with her tomorrow, so we'll find out more then.
Thankfully I have work. Another 6 hour day and I got a lot accomplished. It's really good to get in there, I can't wait to start working a more normal schedule.