The Litany Against Fear

I will not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. (Frank Herbert)

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

The Break Up

I had to have an MRI of my chest because Dr. Lee couldn't quite tell what was happening with the tumor in the breast. The result of the MRI is good news! The MRI could not pick up any visible spots on my liver, nor could it detect any cancer in the lymph nodes. Best of all, it seems that the tumor in the breast is breaking up into smaller pieces. Dr. Lee described it like a meteor hitting the earth's atmosphere and breaking into smaller meteorites. Nice huh?

Every bit of good news must be coupled with not so good news. My body is unable to handle 3 week treatments any more. After 7 months of poison killing my blood as soon as my body can make it I'm just not able to rebound well enough to make the 3 week treatment possible. However, since the treatments are going so well, Dr. Lee doesn't think that it would do too much harm to just push them out to every 4 weeks. It'll give my body time to recover and hopefully I'll be able to be consistent.