Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!!

The patient portal was down last night and all day today. It was driving me crazy — I spent a good portion of today trying to log in and trying to troubleshoot on my end, thinking it was something with my settings somehow. But, after giving up on it this afternoon, when I tried one more time to log on tonight, I got the results of my scan, and I am thrilled! I’ll try not to talk about them too much till I talk to my doctor in case I’m interpreting them incorrectly, but, from what I read on the patient portal, everything is stable!! The cancer has not grown and has not spread!!! I have so many thoughts going through my head right now like: What’s better — to go back on chemo and try to shrink the cancer some more or to stay on immunotherapy alone for as long as possible because there are just so few side effects? And I am wondering if the chemo is still working in my system or if the immunotherapy is working all on its own now, without the combination of my chemo. My next scan will probably answer that. But, for now, I am so happy with the results. I am so happy and so grateful for the gift of more time. And, as my young doctor said after my last scan, I am going to keep doing what I am doing because it seems to be working, at least for now! I am so happy I don’t have to go through the weekend worrying and wondering.

Have a good weekend, everyone, and I will write again after I meet with my doctor on Wednesday!