Christmas Came Early for The Banes!

Last Wednesday, I went in for my first PET scan.  And for anyone that knows anything about cancer, you're probably wondering "your first PET scan??"  "Shouldn't that be the first thing they do when you're diagnosed??"  That was definitely what the technician thought.  So of course, throughout the entire one hour exam, and the four days that followed, my mind was spinning.  Maybe all of the headaches I've had weren't actually routine headaches.  Maybe my leg and body aches weren't caused by the medication after all. 

And then I received the email... from my surgeon...at 7:30 p.m....on a Sunday night! 

My first thought was that it was an automated reminder for my upcoming pre-op appointment.  But then I saw the subject line- "PET."  My heart was racing.  No way she would put in an email that the cancer had spread, right?!!  (Hey, you never know...I mean, I never would have imagined that my first surgeon would basically tell me I was going to die!)  And when I finally opened the email, I read the most AMAZING news....

The PET scan revealed that I was negative for distant metastatic disease (which means the cancer did not spread throughout my body!) AND my tumors and lymph nodes were almost completely negative for cancer!!!!!  The last 12 rounds of chemo had actually worked and I was truly on my way to becoming cancer free!!! 

I've said all along that I AM going to beat this...but actually hearing confirmation from my surgeon makes it all very real!  And while I'm still nervous about my surgery next week, I can go into it knowing that it will remove the last of the cancer and I will come out cancer free!!