Michelle McDonough

Bill and I met with my oncologist on Monday. Things are going well. I am tolerating the 2 weeks of chemotherapy with the third week off. The doctor discussed different tests to check for cancer spread. None of the tests are perfect. The PET scan never showed my original tumors in the bile and hepatic ducts. So there can be other tumors that don't show because they don't metabolize sugar quickly. We talked about doing a bone scan in 6 weeks. I had the tumor on my spine that was found because I was having pain, but it would be good to do a full bone scan to see if there is any more metastsis to other bones.

I drove myself to my 8th round of chemotherapy yesterday. I'm feeling OK, but still tire easily. I've been able to walk around the block, but then I'm pretty much done for the day.

My Mom was accepted into the clinical trial and started a new chemotherapy drug today. It is in pill form, so she will take 2 pills every day. Wednesday she was at the cancer center for 10 hours as they tracked her blood tests and how well she is tolerating the drug. She will have to go back on Thursday, Friday and Saturday this week to have more blood tests.

(I talked to her on Thursday and she is feeling well. They said side effects will take about 2 weeks to show up. )

Thank you for the continued prayers.
Michelle