Important stuff first...
I've managed to get as far as the night train to Marrakech in terms of updating the recent GCW posts with photographs. Clearly, I significantly underestimated the amount of time it would take to get through them all, but we're getting there. More tomorrow, I'm sure.
Boring stuff second...
In the plus column of today's cancer accounting, we have three items. First, the general consensus is that I look good. which appears to count for something in the cancer battle. Second, I feel good, which may or may not count in the cancer battle, but certainly counts in terms of getting out of bed every morning. And third, I was able to walk for three weeks in Spain, which made for a much better trip.
But on the negative side, after six weeks without the anti-cancer drugs my tumor markers are higher then they were. Not as high as when this whole thing started, but the trend has been upward, when the desire is for downward.
But the challenge is that because I was off the pills for so long, it will take some time to figure out what's going on. If they scan me now and the tumors are bigger, we won't know if it's just because I stopped taking the pills or if I've completely stopped responding to them. To figure all this out I'm going to have to take the pills for awhile before I can get scanned to find out what my tumors are doing.
I guess it's a judgement call whether the positives outweigh the negative, but as far as I'm concerned they do.
'Course I reserve the right to change my opinion if it turns out my tumors exploded during my break.
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