Well it appears that the vacanceration is over. I wanted to get the word out that our plan has changed again, as we knew it would. I think I mentioned before that we were making a trip up to Chicago to meet with some doctors. We made this decision after speaking with my cousin Shad, who is a research Doc at Northwestern. We went to Northwestern to expand our options for clinical trials as Tammy is at the point where we will be looking more and more for new treatments for her to try. Anyway. long story short, we got conformation last week and got scheduled on Monday to hopefully get in a trial in Chicago. I say hopefully because next Wednesday we head to NWU for Tammy to have a biopsy done to make sure that a protein that the drugs target is still present in her cancer cells. The protein was there two years ago but cancer mutates, so they want to make sure it is still there. If it is still present then she will qualify for the trial. We will have to wait seven days for the results of the biopsy and if everything is a go she will go right back and do some more tests and then hopefully get started. You would think with four very active kids we would be used to chaos but I have a sneaky feeling that life is going to be just plumb crazy. She will have to be in Chicago for at least 3 days for the first treatment. They will test her blood, then give her a treatment, then she has to wait 72 hours and then they will test her blood again. Then she will be able to leave. Then she will have to be in Chicago once a week for four weeks for just a treatment. Then another 72 hour wait, then another four weeks of treatment followed by another biopsy.
We are excited and worried at the same time. We are excited to be moving on to something else. The vacation has been nice, but we don’t want to lose hold of the beast and let it run out of control. We are worried about the time commitment for Tammy as she will have to miss a lot of family, games, and work. She was really thinking about it a lot the other night, and I just told her that at some point we just have to have faith. Faith that things will work out, and tomorrow will be a brighter day. We don’t know how things will work out past next Thursday (literally), but I know that providence is hovering over us, and she will get to where she needs to be when she needs to be there. Thank you all for all of the love and support over the years. If I’m having a rough day I always go back and read all of your posts. This cancer road seems to be very lonely at times, but when I reread your thoughts and prayers I know that we don’t walk this path alone.