Another update regarding v and the outcome of his most recent CT scan.
It wasn't what we'd hoped for. Last time he showed a very dramatic improvement with the two largest tumors having reduced by over 50%. This time both have shown a very small increase. Very small...but increased never-the-less. His chemotherapy medication and regimen are to be changed. He was able to stop taking the pills that he has had to take twice a day for two weeks out of three. His infused medications will be altered. Instead of once every three weeks he will go in once a week for three weeks with a one week break between cycles. Of the side effects that can occur, one will be hair loss, so I will be knitting him some more caps.
We are very sad, at the moment, but we don't tend to stay down very long. The doctor has released v to return to our Monterey Bay Aquarium volunteer shifts. We will be very happy to be back among the other volunteers, the endlessly fascinating visitors, and, of course, the marine animals. We've been told there is now an additional Hammerhead Shark in the Open Sea as well as two Molas. We stopped in, briefly, yesterday just for the energy the place gives us.
As always we are amazed and grateful for the love and support offered by so many of our friends and acquaintances. Without them we just couldn't make it through this, sometimes, overwhelming experience.
We love to receive comments and we know that we have readers in Europe, Scandinavia, Asia, and Russia. We would love to receive a hello. v has lived in Germany and worked internationally as well as having been born in Italy.
In bocca al lupo. m & v
