I’m tired after two days on the road, but not too tired to send the good news about Peter: preliminary results from the PET scan show no new cancer activity! The neuro oncologist says that Peter will, nonetheless, need to resume chemotherapy for five consecutive days each month. We’ll aim for starting that this coming Monday; then we will return to Duke June 4 for another MRI. If it looks good, we won’t have to go back to Duke for four months.
Each time Peter meets with the oncologists they give him a series of tests to measure his vision, reflexes, arm and leg strength and short-term memory, and they did that today, too.
He is always given three words at the beginning, and then at the end of the session, he’s asked to repeat the words. Until today, he had never been able to recall the three words, but today he did, and he was able to do some simple mental math (“If you received two quarters, a dime and two nickels in change, how much is that?”) and also for the first time, he was able to spell a word forward and backward. This represents a real improvement over even a month ago.
Once again, Ed did most of the driving, and what a help he was, not just with the driving, but also with his companionship. Thanks to Ed, these last two trips have been not just bearable, but (almost!) fun.
I think Peter will sleep well tonight.
Each time Peter meets with the oncologists they give him a series of tests to measure his vision, reflexes, arm and leg strength and short-term memory, and they did that today, too.
He is always given three words at the beginning, and then at the end of the session, he’s asked to repeat the words. Until today, he had never been able to recall the three words, but today he did, and he was able to do some simple mental math (“If you received two quarters, a dime and two nickels in change, how much is that?”) and also for the first time, he was able to spell a word forward and backward. This represents a real improvement over even a month ago.
Once again, Ed did most of the driving, and what a help he was, not just with the driving, but also with his companionship. Thanks to Ed, these last two trips have been not just bearable, but (almost!) fun.
I think Peter will sleep well tonight.
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