Good news, Bad news kind of day

Saw the doctor this morning and got the results of the CT scan. There were reductions in the size of the largest lesion on his liver and elsewhere, so the chemo seems to be working. Good news!

So, Darrel will be staying on the chemo regimen of 3 weeks on and one week off. Today was week one of this cycle.

Darrel has been feeling pretty good but was having some pain/discomfort in his shoulders and neck. Not sure if it was from the cancer or from using the machete while mushroom picking. So, he started wondering about how things would go.

He asked the doctor what the life expectancy and progression was going to be like, as best as he could anyway. The doctor said months not years, but that he could always be wrong. He also said, though, that since Darrel was tolerating the chemo so well that was a good sign. However, this was rather upsetting as we had been thinking more along the lines of a couple of years. The reason for this is that the liver has ‘extensive metastatic involvement.’ Bad news!

So, as I said good news, bad news kind of day.