Update: August 2024

 

2024 08 28

Hi everyone –

No news has been good news, this time!

I’ve been feeling fine, and was hoping that this would match the results of the routine CT scan I had yesterday ... it did!

I had been wondering what the layer of fluid outside my left lung, picked up by my May scan, had been doing. Well, it’s gone! And so has the nodule that it was related to! (Was inside my left lung.) Vanished!

There is absolutely nothing new, and most of the lung nodules have decreased in size. The two that Garth monitors have decreased by 18% and 15% respectively.

So the Tamoxifen is doing its work. The niggly side effects (feeling slightly menopausal, etc) are manageable and – to me – worth it.

Right now, I do have a respiratory infection of some sort (and wrapped up warmly when Gail took me for yesterday’s scan), but it’s the first in exactly a year, as my immunity has returned to normal. It’s also exactly a year since the PET scan confirmed that the lymphoma was gone and that the chemo had also reduced the breast cancer nodules that we continue to monitor.

Yesterday I told Gail that I was hoping there’d be rainbows – there were, but she saw them only after she’d dropped me back at home. So I don’t have a photo from yesterday – this one is from a few weeks ago.

I want to extend the energy and symbolism of rainbows and hope to everyone who is dealing with any sort of challenge at the moment – many of you who are precious to me are facing challenges related to health, work, finances, home maintenance, aging, relationships, loss ... whatever they are, may you find the hope and courage to do and be the best possible in the circumstances.

Thank you, always, to all of you for your ongoing love, support and presence in my life.

Lots of love  🌹❤️