Back home after a busy day. Rocky is off chemo for the time being. Dr. Morgan felt his body had all it could take of this strength for a while. He will be on Avastin every two weeks while we coast along and see what’s going to happen.

The CT showed shrinkage of the spots on the liver. He wasn’t sure if it was scar tissue or what remained of the tumors but he said Rocky had done remarkably well and he wanted to see if he couldn’t continue to shrink what was left with a lesser medication.

We are still ‘juicing’ and on the Integrated Medicine so I feel after letting his body rest from the chemical assault he will continue to do well. After a point the chemo does more harm than good. The trick is to know when to stop.

Rocky feels well and looks good. We continue to be optimistic about his condition and the next few weeks will be time for us to take a break. He will only be going to the Cancer Clinic every other Wednesday now so it will be two weeks in between visits.

Rocky’s CEA was 9.0 today. It isn’t dropping as dramatically now as we’re almost down to the normal range. We are thankful for that. Still, the magic number of 5 or lower is our goal so we will be working towards those numbers.

So for now we will deal with the heat and catch up with some needed things around the place here and try to see what being “normal” is all about. It‘s hard to feel sorry for yourself when you watch the evening news every evening…..it’s enough to make us feel fortunate our fate isn’t worse. For some reason that has always made me feel better…….and very grateful.

Until tomorrow,
Essentially Esther