PET Scan delayed

Had a minor setback this last treatment.  For whatever reason, my red blood count decided to crash and put me in a severe anemic state.  I was doing well the day of treatment and the day after.  We went to dinner with friends and I started to get chilled.  Hot tea didn't help warm me up, all I wanted was to go home and take a hot shower.  The next morning I couldn't get out of bed, lift my head off the pillow, move .....DAMN!!   I stayed in bed fading in and out the majority of the day and evening.  The next morning I had an appointment with the DR.  Needless to say, he was quite shocked to see me laying on the table with my sweatshirt on and a blanket covering me.   He said I was severely dehydrated and my iron was extremely low...hence me being so cold and tired.  He wanted me to have iron treatments, but they have made me so sick in the past I said ,"NO" and meant it!  I did have hydration thou I'm not sure it helped any.  Came home and crawled back into bed where I stayed until this morning.  Starting to feel somewhat better, still very tired and everything I do seems like it's taking forever.  He postponed the PET Scan for this month, wants me to have another round of chemo and then will schedule it.  Also going to cut my nulasta shot in 1/2 as he feels that could have something to do with me feeling so bad.  So, we'll just take it another month at a time and see where this ends up.  Thanks for all your kind words, prayers and cards sent.
                                                   Peace  & Love,
                                                                            Marcia

Have been feeling pretty good since my last chemo treatment.  I was supposed to have one this past week, but the Drs office called and told me I couldn't have it.  Seems it was only 20 days since my last treatment, and if I want my insurance to pay it has to be 21 days.  Glad they caught that as it would of cost us around $2,500 and a lot of time spent on the phone with Blue Cross and getting no where.  My recent cat scan came out good..nothing has changed with the tumor in the past 6 months....it hasn't gotten bigger, smaller, moved etc.  So the Dr. wants me to have a PET scan to see what actually is happening with the tumor.  He thinks the tumor may be "dead" or just scar tissue or may still have live cancer cells inside of it...there's no was of knowing unless I have the PET scan.  It is scheduled for May 10th.  It will also show if there is any other cancer activity anywhere else in my body.   He did tell me that I will have to be on some form of chemo even if it shows the tumor is "dead".  Since I was in remission once already and the cancer came back, the odds are high that if I stopped treatment, it would return sooner or later, and we may not catch it as quickly or it could come back with a vengeance and then I'd really be in trouble!  So I'm trying to come to realize that I will be on some form of maintenance  chemo the rest of my life.  Well, I can decide that I don't want to continue with treatment, but the thought of going thru the beginning of treatments for a 3rd time.........can't do it.  So let's hope and pray that the scan will show good results and maybe I can extend my treatments to every few months.....Will see the Dr to get the results on May 15th.

                                                              Peace & Love

results

I'm back home in Michigan after being gone 2 1/2 months.  It was a different feel to the vacation this year.   A lot of anxiety about missing treatments and just being anxious the whole time.  Which is a shame, because I wasted a lot of time feeling bad when I should of been having fun.  I did have a day home before going to get my chemo treatment.  It went rather well, I was feeling fine.  My CA-125 was 9.5 which is really good.  However, the chemo caught up with me on day 2 and I've been in bed sick and exhausted.  Tomorrow I go have my 6 month cat scan.  Then on Friday, I have an appointment with Dr. Fata.  Not quite back into wanting to write on the blog just yet, but will every now and then to keep you all updated.
                         Peace & Love