a piece of good news

Yesterday I had a PET scan and today we had our follow up to find out what it showed. And for the first time in a looooonnnnngggggg time, we had a good PET report!! The cancer is responding to the chemo I am currently receiving and knocking it back. It is not all gone, nor did we expect it to be, but this sets us up to get ready for the transplant, which is what we want to have happen.
There was quite a bit of anxiety in the last few months that this chemo may not work and the cancer would have continued to spread (worse scenario). This would have been very bad news for the possibility of the transplant to be effective.
So obviously we are very encouraged right now that we will be moving forward with the transplant and it probably will happen in December. I will have one more round of Chemo. (two doses, one per week) right after Thanksgiving. We will then start making the first of many trips to Hanover to get the process rolling.
Keep the prayers going!
Lots of love, Pam