Yesterday was a real roller coaster ride for me and my daughter, Amy. We met with my doctor first and he told us that the areas were hard to reach areas and he didn't feel that operating on radiatied tissue would be successful, so surgery was out. He then told us that we were no longer looking for a cure but simply to control and maintain this cancer. He said chemo would give me a 60% chance of getting rid of the new areas but that they would eventually come back.............then I'd get more chemo, and so on, like a cycle. Amy took this really hard, it's the one visit I wish I had gone to alone. We gathered ourselves and went downstairs to have the biopsy's done on these areas. Holding my neck still for so long for the sonogram part was the worst for me, the needles weren't all that bad. There were two pathologists in the room with their microscopes to make sure the techs got a good speciman. Also, the head doc in there obviously had a lengthy background in pathology as she also kept looking at the specimans under the microscope and on the ultrasound. She even decided to biopsy an additional area. She told us that none of the specimans they looked at had any cancer in them. They looked at 1/3 of the speciman, the other 2/3 will be sent to the lab. She also told me that from looking at the ultrsound, the areas didn't look like cancer but rather looked like reactice lymph nodes and scar tissue around my thyroid.

Has anyone else had this happen to them? Of course we're praying desperately that she's right but remain prepared in case she's not. But how great would that be if she's correct!

Minnie