New Drug...

So my oncologist phoned me last night to let me know I was approved for a new drug.  This drug although there is research to say that it does help reverse this kind of cancer is not approved for this treatment so we had to wait to get special permission to use it.


The approval just came from the government so I am going to be starting this treatment right away.  This drug will stop my body from producing estrogen so that the Megestrol pills that I am currently taking will work more effectively.  Unfortunately this pill has a lot of side effects so I hopefully do not get them all because that would make the next couple of months drag by if I am sick all of the time.  But I guess I should not worry about it too much and just wait to see if I get the symptoms.  

So...

I was blog surfing and it always frustrates me when the blogs are never updated regularly and then I realized that I should update my blog because it has been a while.


Last weekend Shauna and I took the long trip down south to visit Michelle, Richard and Katie.  We even brought Harley along much to Katie's delight because even though Katie loves to see Harley and attempt to pet him as he flies by and Harley does not like her too much.  He cannot figure out what she is so it is kind of funny to watch them together.  


Katie has started to crawl!!!! It is pretty neat to see how much she grows each time you see her.  She is getting pretty big and she loves to be walked around the room so hopefully soon she will be walking.  


The twins are due in under 3 months from now so Michelle and I went to the fabric store after Jenny's wedding and picked out fabric for some quilts for the babies crib blankets.  I am planning on going back down there in a couple of weeks and we are going to quilt them together.  It is going to be lots of fun.


Lately I have started to crochet again and quilt.  I am almost finished my next quilting project I just have to bind it so when I have my surgery I can snuggle under my new blanket and relax.  Well try to relax any ways I after my last surgery I was going stir crazy after only a couple of days at home so hopefully I do not go crazy especially if I have 2 surgeries.  But I will have to wait until the beginning of August to find out what is happening.  

Decision

After several weeks of not knowing what I was going to I have finally decided that I am going to continue doing the treatment instead of just having surgery to remove it.  The reason for this is because although the cells are still there they have decreased significantly since October which indicates that the cells are responding to treatment.  They are just not responding as fast as they wanted them to be.  So for now I am continuing on hormone treatment and my doctor is seeing if they can get approval for a breast cancer drug that has shown in studies to help cure this form of cancer.  The government has to approve the use of this drug because it is currently only approved for breast cancer treatment so they have to have special permission to use it.  The only problem with this drug is it has a lot of negative side effects but if it is only for a couple of months I think I can live with it.