Relief

We just heard some great news.  Trent does not have cancer in his brain!  Now for the background.  The last few days Trent has had a lot of numbness in his legs and arms.  Not a good sign.  I called Katie, our nurse, on Tuesday and told her about it.  I had already done my research and knew that numbness was a side effect of Temodar, one of the chemo drugs Trent is on.  It was listed as one of the more severe side effects that a doctor should be notified about which is why I called Katie.  When I told her about it she was concerned and wanted to talk to Dr. Gouw.  She called yesterday and said they felt that Trent should have a brain scan ASAP.  Of course they would be looking for tumors in his brain.  Not a pretty thought.  We went in this morning and had the brain scan.  Just a few minutes ago we got the call we had been praying for.  Negative results.  Yeah!  It sounds weird but negative is good in this case.  There is no cancer in Trent's brain so we are going to continue to monitor the side effects of the drugs-assuming that is what is causing the numbness.

Trent's case was also discussed in the sarcoma conference on Monday at Huntsman.  All the different types of oncologists; radiation, chemo, surgeons, agreed that Trent needs surgery on his lungs again regardless of what the chemo does to his tumor.  We are still hoping it will shrink it but if it doesn't the thinking is that because it is only one tumor it should be removed and then follow up with a couple more rounds of chemo.
That is not a fun thought because this round has not been too good.  Surgery is not exciting either but we will do what we have to do to kick this thing once and for all!