Some Good News!!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day ...


Great news! My kidney/bladder scans were completely normal and my creatinine level is back down to normal. I was able to get the Avastin infusion last Tuesday. We’ll just continue to watch my tumor marker every 3 weeks and hope for the best. If the numbers keep going up, my oncologist said we’ll need to start one of the chemos. Talk about a crazy roller coaster ride ...

Love you all,
Nyshie

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We saw the oncologist today and unfortunately, one of my lab values (creatinine level – look it up) has increased for the last 3 weeks indicating a kidney problem. It could be a side effect of the Avastin, a structural block in my kidneys (a tumor?) or who knows. I was unable to get the Avastin infusion scheduled today because of this and am being scheduled for a renal scan to determine what’s causing it. Good news/bad news: if it’s the Avastin, my kidneys are fine. If it’s the Avastin, I can’t take it anymore, which means I go on to one of the last 2-3 choices of chemo with hair loss, nausea, etc. If it’s not the Avastin, but a structural block ... we’ll cross that bridge later. The other information is that my CA125 increased from 714 three weeks ago to 860, also not great news.

The good news is that I had an incredible, beautiful Colorado day, 62 degrees and sunny and got to spend time with all 4 of my granddaughters.  Life doesn’t get much better than that.

Love you all,

Big Giant Grandma Nyshie