After much lost sleep and the most anxiety I've felt thus far...........the report from my Spiral CT showed it is scarring in my right lung and not cancer. I got the call at 5:00 today, during the prayer circle at the end of my Varsity cheer teams practice......how cool is that.

The PET I had done showed the spot in my right lung, with an SUV uptake of 4.5. When I read about the PET and saw that 2.5 uptake and above is usually malignant, I felt absolutely hopeless. SO, it is true that we need to step back a bit when we get a PET scan result and await further testing. PETS are awesome tools for our cancer, but they can also cause us tons of anxiety!

My surgery is on September 25th, 5:30am arrival time......which sucks, I'm so not a morning person. We're leaving here as a family on the Sunday before and spending Sunday in DC and then Monday doing some fun things with the kids in Baltimore. The girls will stay with us at a suite until Thursday morning than they will go back home with one of our older girls to get back into school.

I like having a plan in place, I like what Hopkins has to say, they have even included re-radiation in my treatment plan. I'll keep everyone posted.

Thank you for all the support through this, it's certainly been a hectic, scary time.

Love,
Minnie

SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.