My metastatic cancer is shrinking

The best Christmas gift I could have had

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I checked my email an hour ago and noticed an update to my Patient Portal. I checked it out. I finally got the result for my CT scan that happened a couple of weeks ago.

I had met with a nurse after the scan. I asked her about my results. She said, “you’re stable.”

Since I have metastatic lung, brain, and liver cancer — I assumed stable meant that my cancer was either not growing or growing very slowly. Because it’s very unusual for a third time cancer patient with metastatic cancer to actually see their tumors shrink.

However, when I checked out my CT scan results… my tumors have shrunk.

Not by a lot. Most have only shrunk by .1 cm. One, however, shrunk by .6 cm. That’s huge. Like, 15% smaller.

I am calling this my Christmas miracle.

I praise God for this. Frankly, the doctors have not expected me to survive.

My surgeon told me, when I asked him for an honest answer, that he expected me to live about 6 months after my brain surgery. That was 8 months ago. My oncologist didn’t want me to travel. She thought I was too fragile. My other oncologist (I’ve got two because of the extent of the metastases) expressed surprise at how well I’ve…