This blog is about our family journey that unfortunately involves melanoma. It is also a blog to help those with melanoma know what their treatments and procedures may be like as we experience it! It started January 2012 when Bennie was diagnosed with stage 4 Melanoma (after 8 years of thinking we had dodged a bullet when he was diagnosed with stage 1 in 2005)
Friday, September 20, 2013
Free
We went for results yesterday and got the answer we so desperately wanted to hear.... No Tumors!!!!! We were soooooooooooooooo excited!!! Nothing lit up on the pet scan!! His kidney function is still really elevated and the Dr. Said it was serious that we get that down. We don't want Bennie to go into kidney failure, so it seems like a great time to let his kidneys heal. Since Bennie doesn't have any tumors right now they are taking him off his medicine completely for 3 months....or until the next pet scan or until Bennie feels anything abnormal. All this is scary, but we feel completely and totally blessed that we have this luxury and time to let his kidneys heal!! The worst case would have been going in to find out tumors are growing, and not be able to do treatment because of his kidney situation. So.... If anything does appear in the near future hopefully his kidneys will be A ok and we can start a clinical trial or do zelboraf again! But the good news is we have options right now and he has no tumors!!! And he won't be on any medicine..... So he will feel good!! Thank you so much for all your prayers, and we are just praising Jesus for this great news!!! It feels amazing to have all that anxiety and worry lifted off your shoulders !!! We can breathe!!!!!! We can eat and sleep again!! We can enjoy every moment we have right now!!
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