When I last left you, we'd gotten some results that were relayed via phone but didn't tell us a whole lot, other than we need more testing. So the testing began today. we started out checking in at 7:30 a.m. for bone biopsy's on T-12 and L-3&4. They started out with L-3&4 since there was soft tissue and they wanted to get it to the pathologist while they worked on T-12. Everything went well, much better than the experience we had back in March. The pathologist said they got a good sample, but it looks like different tissue than in the C-5 region. Also, it looked like the tissue was restricted to L-3 only. The T-12 sample was okay, but they said the bone sample was "mushy".
We had a couple of hours off, then met with the radiation oncologist who reviewed the MRI results from last week (we got to see some of the MRI's which helped). He anticipates beginning radiation treatments this week on T-12 & C-3. While we were there he ran a CT scan to locate everything he needs to radiate and get me "marked". He doesn't think the I'll have as many treatments, maybe 10-14, to make sure he doesn't damage too much bone marrow in anticipation of some future treatments with bone marrow.
Tomorrow I'll meet with the neurosurgeon to see if there's anything he needs to do at T-12; the bone marrow biopsy's on both hips; then I'm finishing up with a dentist appointment if I have time. Whoda thunk I'd be looking forward to the dentist!
I'll try to give you an update tomorrow night!