We went in for Scott's 6 month cancer follow-up appointment this morning. He had his labs drawn last week so results would be back from Mayo and they are GOOD!
His calcitonin (the most accurate marker for this type of cancer at this time) is 757. Which means it is holding steady!!!! As well as his CEA level which is right about where it was last time too!
This is a very good sign! His levels have held steady for a year now and we can finally say that he is in remission. That's the first time I've dared to type that word and it makes me a little giddy and nervous all at the same time. From here on out we are cleared to wait another 6 months before we check CEA and Calcitonin levels again or do any more repeat scans unless anything should change. Yay. Yay! YAY!
He's pretty hypothyroid (went from < 2 to 10) which completely explains the tired, icky feeling he's been having that was scaring me for the last few weeks. We upped his Synthroid dose and will follow-up on that in 8 weeks. We'll take hypothyroid-tired over cancer-tired any day though and are thanking our Father for this wonderful blessing.
4 comments:
Great news! Glad you can finally say he's in remission. I'm sure that is such a huge relief! :)
This is great to hear!
Glad to hear everything is going well!
Yay, that's awesome!!
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