October 7th update

Nancy had her appointment today.  The results of the lumbar puncture were "suspicious but not conclusive".  What that appears to mean is that there was cancer in the spinal fluid, however not so much that more radical treatments are required at this point.  Nancy received her first Herceptin treatment.  This is IV and will be given weekly.  The Lapatinib is not yet approved by our insurance.  We hope to have this done and Nancy start taking around Thursday of this week. This med is a pill and she will take 4-5 per day.  Nancy is still very weak and this is a critical time. 

There will be careful observation on her eye issues. There may be discussion about radiation on the eye later this week.   In 4-6 weeks, there will be another MRI and hopefully progress will be made.  If there is not improvement, more radical treatments will done......where a port is placed in Nancy's head and they inject the chemo into the brain directly.  We are hoping this will not be the case.

Nancy is resting this week.......Mike, Todd, Ally and the grand-boys Keeton and Deacon get here Friday night......maybe the best therapy of all!  Your support is special, thank you.