After chemo we will wait a few weeks and do another PET scan to see how things are looking.  Then we will need to make some decisions about how many areas to radiate.  Radiation can only be done once in a certain area, so if I need radiation in the future in that area I won’t have that option if I do it now. But I think that if I we see any cancer that is visible on the PET scan I will probably opt for radiating that area.

I need to get some further opinions, and think and pray about it before we decide.  Even if we don’t see anything visible on the PET scan, it would still be tempting to radiate the 3 areas where the cancer spread to my bones just to make sure we get rid of it, but I don’t know if that is the smartest thing to do or not.  It is standard procedure to radiate the original area of the cancer and lymph nodes that were removed already during surgery, so no decision needs to be made about that.

Then I will be in radiation for 6 weeks.  It is every day, Mon-Friday, but doesn’t take as long as chemo, and I won’t have to drive as far for it.  Right now I am just looking forward to finishing chemo, and getting the PET scan.

An interesting thing happened a couple of days ago.  I was called randomly by a girl whose sister lives in our neighborhood.  She is doing a segment on a Utah show called “Good Things Utah”.  She wanted to talk about breast cancer because October is breast cancer awareness week.  She remembered that her sister had told her about me a few months ago, and gave me a call.

She wants to put a face with her little story on breast cancer, and will be highlighting me on the show next Friday.  That will be a week from today at 10AM on ABC channel 4 for those of you in Utah who may be interested in it.  She said it will be really short.  I will probably sit in the audience, and they will show a picture of our family and briefly tell our story.

Alright, I am going to bed now!  Countin’ down baby!!  Only 3 more!!!  =)