Hooray! We just received a call from Vanessa (Dr. Nick's nurse and our earthly angel), and Dan's scan looks good! Both the radiologist and Dan's neuro oncologist agreed that on preliminary readings things are looking good for us. PRAISE GOD!
We had just composed a joint email asking for prayers for peace and patience when the phone rang (5:20 PM). Our wonderful medical team stayed on late to give us this news! This means that the chemo and radiation have been effective in retarding (if not stopping) the growth of Dan's cancer. Any time that we have together is precious, but this gives us a real chance to take a deep breath and not think about cancer for at least a few weeks.
We will meet with Dan's doctor tomorrow to discuss our next phase of treatment. We know that he will receive chemo on a 23 days off, 5 days on schedule, but we think that he will not need the gamma knife treatment at this time!!!
This is such exciting news for us. Of course, this is the end of phase I, but for now we can tally the score as Cancer-0, Dan-1! Thank you prayer warriors and support team. We know this is going to be a long fight, but it sure feels good to be on the winning side for now. We are offering up huge prayers of praise and thanksgiving!
Lots of love,
Leah and Dan
