MRIs are inconclusive, which is NOT what I wanted…I wanted to hear that, without a doubt, I’m kicking this things ass. The pics show no growth externally but no shrinkage either…unfortunately they both showed that it might be growing back internally, in the space they cut out; that would mean the chemo isn’t working. Good caveat: it could just be contrast dye leakage and mean nothing bad.

So no reason to panic, but both Walter Reed Neuro and NIH Neuro feel they need to bring me back up the first week of March for more scans (PET, CAT and another MRI). Good news is that they think the chemo is at least keeping it under control…no growth showing on the margins, although we don’t know how fast it was growing to begin with.

Walter Reed wants to take this nodule out of my right arm soonest to get to the pathologists, so they squeezed me into their OR schedule on Tuesday, 13 Feb…this extends my trip until 15 Feb (they want me to stick around one extra day, to ensure no adverse reactions). They also have a neuroclinic the first week in March to try to figure out my right arm nerve atrophy, which will correspond to my scan trip in March.

Just a quick answer to the questions folks have been calling to ask. Thanks again for all your concern.

All my love, Dan