Friday, April 29, 2011

Follow Up at the National Institute of Health

Missy and Dad flew up to the National Institute of Health yesterday for a follow up MRI and to meet with her doctors about the effectiveness of her current treatment plan. She found out this morning that the scan shows her cancer is responding exactly as they hoped to this new treatment! This is such amazing news! We were all very hopeful that it was working well, since she seems to been feeling more like herself lately, but there was definitely the fear that we would get a report of new cancer growth as we did last time. Hearing the words that this is working like it should, to just continue on with treatments as planned, it's just such overwhelming and wonderful news.

Missy and Dad will be flying home tonight, and she will continue on with her current treatment plan here at home. She will go back up to the NIH for another MRI in two months, just to keep an eye on things and to make sure nothing has changed.

Thank you all so much for your continued prayers and support. They mean so much to us all.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Update

I am so sorry that it has been so long since I have posted an update here on Kicking Cancer. Time has just been moving since Missy's surgery and it doesn't feel like there is much to report. Still, I know you all use this site as a way to know how our sweet Melissa is doing, and I will try to do better with updates, even if they are just to say she is doing good and there isn't anything new to report!

Since my last post Missy has recovered very well from her surgery! She is back to work part time, which is the plan for the foreseeable future. She is just not up to a full work week with everything she has going on. She tires easily and really needs that extra time to focus on recovery. Luckily her amazing job has worked it out for her to stay on at the hospital in a part time roll. She is currently still in the Cancer Research department and we hope she will be able to stay there, but we are just very thankful for all they have done to keep her on as part of the Central Baptist team.

A little over a month ago Missy started her new treatments and they seem to be going well. For the last few weeks she has been fighting off a terrible flu like virus, and then a sinus infection and bronchial infection, but she seems to be feeling better. It is just extremely unfortunate that when you are fighting things like cancer your immune system is down and you end up picking up every bug that comes down the line. Hopefully with the start of spring she will be feeling better!

Thank you all for stopping by the blog to check in on her. She so appreciates all of you!