This weeks scans

I don't have a lot to say because I did all my venting in my last post, but here are the results of this weeks scans.

• No findings of metastatic disease in the abdomen or pelvis.  
• Sclerotic of the fourth rib and a few small pulmonary nodules are unchanged.  No new/growing pulmonary nodules or thoracic lesions are identified.
• Stable metastatic lesions involving the left proximal femur and left anterior fourth rib.  New and old posteromedial rib fractures are traumatic in appearance.  No new bony metastasis identified.

In other words, nothing has changed since the last scan!  What struck me when I was reading the reports is that there is no visible cancer in my liver, where this all started.  It gives me hope--I know my team is doing everything possible for me and I'm so grateful!  My left rib very rarely bothers me.  My left hip bothers me all the time, I feel it with every step and stair I take.

Dr. Buys told me we could try radiation on my hip, but I'm not ready to jump to that yet.  Honestly, I'm tired of treatment (I'm NOT stopping treatment!). I spend a lot of time up there, and the last few months it's just been a drag!  If I could do the things that keep me sane (acupuncture! massage!) in all of this, I might feel different. But I am so done with isolation, quarantines, masks and paranoia (my own).  Being in constant pain, even as minor as it is right now, is exhausting.  The only thing I can take is Tylenol because it is the only pain killer that doesn't thin the blood.  I take Eliquis (a blood thinner) already to prevent blood clots.

Poor Mat sat in the car in the parking garage today.  He drove me because it was an early appointment. He wanted to come to my appointment, but it's not allowed.  So I put him on speaker phone when Dr. Buys came in to talk to me, then he had to wait and wait some more while I waited for the pharmacy to my study drug together.  I really am exhausted ...