Once more the Cheerleaders were not so cheerful. Everyone is stressing out around Gavin and he knows it so he is being fretful and clingy. Jan is late getting here and the sisters are glaring at each other with Gavin throwing them Good Grief Glances and looking to his mother for support who is just trying to get everyone into a car and get us to the Clinic. She is wondering why does she have a support group who continually falls apart and thinking she needs to find some good Brazilian feel-good pills or something. This just will not do. Jamie and I get a lecture on the way in.....no tears, no holding your heads, for goodness sake, suck it up!
We are late and so there is a very long wait for Dr. Spiro who probably does not even know it but has been rerouted by the clever nurses who have put us in a different time slot.
He comes in smiling and once again it is Tess who holds court and has all the questions like little ducks in a row. And the news is awesome.
For now I’ll just say the chemo has been reduced to 4x 3wks apart and it is a new chemical combination that has better side effects. No radiation (clear margines, node negative) and no tamaxofen because her cancer is not hormone fed so it wouldn’t do any good anyway. She can go to Florida on their trip first and chemo starts June 29th. So much testing and info to get before then, but 5 year cure rate is 87% so we are pleased.
More details later. These sessions are exhausting! Thanks, Jan for babysitting and thanks cheerleaders abroad. Those prayers are working........keep them up!!
And now we are understanding why Dr. Spiro's patients love him. :)
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