[Sheila]

Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers...this has taken a toll but I am still trying to increase my lung capacity and inflate the lower lobe...I am back to walking, at a slower pace, but up to 1 mile a day...a long way from a month or 2 ago! The heat makes it difficult, so its all about timing. I completed my first cycle of metronomic chemo, Cytoxan and Methotrexateand do notice some shrinkage of the axillary nodes and neck nodes....I am always a quick responder at the beginning. I am hoping the scans will show the mediastinal nodes and the ones around the pulmonary artery have shrunk! All in hoping that this will keep disease progression at bay until i can get TDM-1....
This has truly been a trying year with my parents, myself and my son....his house was demolished last week, so his wife and him are designing their "new" house. He is off work so he has plenty of time to worry about the what ifs....I have tried to tell him many times, its not easy, but you deal with the hand you are dealt, try to make the best of it, and remain positive.....hard to do, but we have all been there, some of us more than once.
Hoping the next half of the year is more peaceful....you are all in my thoughts and prayers!