We went in on Wednesday the 10th to have the CT done. Both Taylor and I felt quite confident being armed with God's comfort. On Thursday, we met with Dr. George to get the results of the CT and then planned on heading on over to chemo. We had a kink in the plan!
Dr. George came in and told us that the chemo had not been working and that there were actually MORE tumors now that before! YIKES!!! We had to find a plan of attack. Dr. George gave us the option of one more chemotherapy and then told us we would be looking at trial drugs.
The other news that we got was that my left lung is deflated almost completely. There is a strawberry sized tumor blocking the valve of my lung. We would be admitted on Monday the 15th and see the "Cowboy Pulmonologist" to see if he would be able to reinflate my lung.
We left Gainesville and headed home to our babies to digest the information and make our plan of attack. We had a great weekend with the girls and each other. Man is our life amazing or what? I have the greatest husband and children on Earth!
On Sunday afternoon the big girls headed to Mobile with Aunie and Uncle Chris to spend the weekend celebrating Mardi Gras. Logan got to spend the night with Aunt Jess, Uncle Chan and the boys. Man I hope she is nice to them! Taylor and I headed to Gainesville with the intent to spend Valentine's Day evening having dinner and a movie together. When we finally arrived in Gainesville we spent a few minutes scaring Mom and Aunt Carol who had already checked into their hotel room right next to ours! :) We ended up spending the evening on the couches talking and catching up. We had a blast.
Monday morning we were up and at them really early! We arrived and were assigned a room after about an hour. We met with several doctors throughout the day to get our plans laid out. Dr. Jance is the pulmonologist that will doing the procedure and plans on completing it on Wednesday morning. There are several things that could occur so I am not going to go into all of the what ifs and will update you on this more after the procedure.
So, for now the priority is to get the lung open, then we will take a month or so to recover and then will begin a new form of chemo. We have decided to go to MD Anderson for a second or third or fourth opinion during our time off of chemo. I will update you all after the procedure.
I still feel confident that God has this under control and I should not fret. My faith in God is unwavering and grows more and more each day. Please continue to pray for us as well as my brother, Beau in Afghanistan who is fighting for OUR freedom! Love to you all!
