One More Treatment to Go!

I started my last cycle of chemo before surgery (and hopefully forever) yesterday and now have only one treatment left next Monday!
The plan is to have two weeks off between chemo and surgery on the 27th in Houston. My surgeon is going to take a bunch of lymph nodes and if they are all clear of disease I will be all done and on the monitoring path!!! This would be amazing and I pray for it everyday!

MDAnderson Second Opinion

We went to MDA this past week for a special liver scan and a second opinion on the path forward. My surgical oncologist there delivered the great news that it definitely had gotten smaller and has changed in character, which apparently is a good thing. MDA and my oncologist here agree that the best thing to do is two more cycles of chemo and then surgery to remove the lesion. I have decided to use a surgeon at MDA this time and surgery is scheduled for March 27th. I love my previous surgeon but he does big complicated surgeries (which i had the first time) and my new one specializes in cholangiocarcinoma.

I have had a pretty good week off. The chemo fatigue is compounding and I feel pretty tired a lot of the time. This week was the first time in months I have not taken pain meds for the back pain that we believe is caused from chemo. That alone is a reason to celebrate! The back pain has been the most difficult part of chemo for me.