Okay, I'm getting a little behind on my blog updates... to catch you up to speed, last week there seemed to be an upward trend w/ my tumor marker. NOT quite the news I had wanted to hear. On Aug 1st it was 160, on Aug 17 it jumped up to 245 and on Aug 29 it made another jump up to 315. (To refresh you memory on what the tumor marker is, refer to my 6/11/11 blog entry). Dr H is still thinking this is a part of the "flare up" from the new drugs I'm taking. Which might be the case... this week the tumor marker went down to 278. Not where we were, but it's going down... I'LL TAKE IT!!! Dr. H was wanting to give this new drug combo about 6 - 8 weeks to "do it's thing," so hopefully in the next week or two it will start doing it's thing!! We'll be checking the tumor marker again next week so my fingers are crossed that it continues to go down. I'm obviously hoping this new drug combo works, but if the tumor marker for whatever reason doesn't continue to go down OR for whatever reason starts going back up, then we of course have a backup plan in mind. So alas, we wait!!
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