Some Good News For A Change

Just a quick entry to let you know I went to Johns Hopkins today and had my last drain removed. Yeah, I can now sleep like a normal person again instead of having this softball on my chest all night. I also went in for a CT scan of my lungs and liver and the results came back all clear! The cancer is not there. The week of the 12th I will have a bone scan to see if the cancer has settled there. Also, my updated pathology report said the second tumor was only .8cm (not 1.3) and the test of cell division (Ki 67) is very high indicating the cancer is very fast growing (.5 vs. normal cancer of .3). This is good news as chemo attacks the fastest growing cells in the body (hence the hair loss) and my cancer is really fast so the chemo should be even more effective. At least I have some good news to start the weekend.