The great disapearing act.

I have not posted any thing of late just because not much has happened concerning my battle with Goliath. It has been the middle rounds and things haven't changed much the last few weeks. I have had a nice visit from my Mom and some good outings with Cousin John on his boat, fishing,shooting the breeze, and hanging out!
I have felt better these last four rounds without the Oxaliplatin. I found out last round from my infusion nurse Luke, that the platin in Oxaliplatin is platinum, a heavy metal. So the reason I feel so ill on the Oxaliplatin is due to heavy metal poisoning.
Now for the good news! The chemo treatment is working very well. We have beaten Goliath back and eradicated most of his troops. I had a CT scan Thursday the 12th of November. The results are amazing. The tumor in my lung has shrunk since the last scan in August and is now being called a lesion. There is very little of that tumor left. All the tumors in my Lymph nodes are gone!!!!! The report from Kaiser states "Decrease in size of left lower lobe lesion compared to 8/29/09. It also states "No significant Lymphadenopathy is identified." If you remember the report from August said that Goliath was reduced by around half. Now the report is telling me that four tumors are gone and I am left with only one small tumor in the lung .
This makes the hope of reaching NEDS ( No evidence of disease.) very realistic. This is a huge emotional swing from being told that my cancer was incurable to the thought that I might be cancer free in a few more rounds of Chemo. Goliath his met his match!!!!