http://nickysfight.com Our Mom's Fight Against Colorectal Cancer Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:59:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm so sorry I have been so terrible at keeping up with the site lately!  But in this case, no news is good news.  Mom is doing great!!!  She has another scan on Friday, July 23rd so I will definitely post again after we get the results from that.  Mom ... http://nickysfight.com/?p=246 Mom's tumor markers have been steadily decreasing ever since she started on the new treatment, Erbitux and Irinotecan.  Her CEA levels had been up past 1300 but the latest reading is 561.  Yaay!  We are hoping that is a good sign.  But we are still anxious for the next scan........as always!  But ... http://nickysfight.com/?p=245 Ju, Mom, Grams and I are headed to Las Vegas this weekend!  We are going to see "Menopause the Musical" and a David Blaine magic show.  It should be a great time!  Mom is still getting weekly treatments of the Irinotecan and they alternate every other week with Erbitux.  Here is ... http://nickysfight.com/?p=216 Mom and Jay are spending the week at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Tulsa, Oklahoma.   They are having an intial visit to decide if they like the hospital.  So far, they love it.  It's nice to have all of the treatments and facilities you could possibly need to treat ... http://nickysfight.com/?p=215 I've decided we all probably need to donate blood to replace the many pints that Mom has needed during her 3 years of treatment.  I have donated before but it's been a little while so it's only fair since Mom had to get 2 more pints today that someone very ... http://nickysfight.com/?p=214 One of the worst side effects of all of the chemo and medications is Mom's instability.  Falling is becoming a more and more common problem for us.  Julie just got Mom a mini-fridge for her room so we could try to avoid her having to go up and down the ... http://nickysfight.com/?p=184 There's not really much to post about but I just wanted everyone to know Mom is still doing okay.  She is still doing the bi-weekly rotation of chemo.  She is still on the Folfuri and Avastin I believe but should double check.  We are hoping that another clinical trial comes ... http://nickysfight.com/?p=183 We are pretty bummed Mom wasn't chosen as a viable candidate for the study.  Something about being MSI stable disqualified her from the study.  So apparently her cancer is too genetically stable for the type of treatment they were examining.  So she will continue on the regular chemo she has ... http://nickysfight.com/?p=182 Hey everyone  I haven't posted in a while but Mom is still chugging along through all her treatments.  On the latest PetScan, some of the liver tumors showed slight growth, 2mm or so.  And they still don't know what to make of the spots on the lungs.  They aren't showing up with metabolic ... http://nickysfight.com/?p=181 http://www.komendenver.org/site/TRC/Race/General?pg=peditor&fr_id=1090&px=1588341 Our family is planning to walk in support of our favorite survivors, Grams and Aunt Paulette!  (And Mom too! who says it can ONLY be for breast cancer).  We love you guys! http://nickysfight.com/?p=180 We were happy to hear that Uncle Terry received a clean, cancer-free bill of health!  CONGRATULATIONS!!! Grams as well has thus far had the same news.  Mom isn't cancer free but she is doing great on her treatment!  She is on the Xeloda (pill form of chemo) in place of the ... http://nickysfight.com/?p=179 Mom is on the truck with Jay for the week.  She got her regularly scheduled chemo yesterday and they bumped up the dose.  She handled it well so she decided to play hooky from the Neumega shots for the week and go on the truck with Jay.  The doctor advised ... http://nickysfight.com/?p=178 Mom met with Dr. Kane today and the results of the PetScan were pretty good.  Of course we would rather hear that things are shrinking or disappearing but things are staying the same.  There was no new disease, no spread of disease and the size and metabolic activity appeared comparative ... http://nickysfight.com/?p=177 Mom has been having some abdominal pain and we are concerned it might be her liver.  So Dr. Kane ordered a chest x-ray and Petscan just to try to figure out where the pain is originating from and to get a more recent picture of what's going on.  The results from ... http://nickysfight.com/?p=176 Grams is recovering at home today.  She made it throught the mastectomy surgery without any problems yesterday and was allowed to go home.  She was very tired after the surgery but is feeling better today.  But she took some of the pain medicine and is doing her best to take ... http://nickysfight.com/?p=175 Tomorrow, March 31st, take five minutes to join thousands of your fellow advocates in a phone blitz to Congress in support of colorectal cancer screening legislation.This legislation currently in Congress would create a National Colorectal Cancer Screening Program. Your phone calls could help make it happen!C3 has made it easy ... http://nickysfight.com/?p=174 :(  Grams was diagnosed with breast cancer last week.  She had a small lump removed 8 years ago and we thought she was in the clear but she had a "smudge" on her annual mammagram.  Luckily her doctors followed up on it, did a MRI and took a biopsy.  It ... http://nickysfight.com/?p=173 I still don't have anything too exciting to report.  Mom is doing really well and is feeling pretty good.  She had an awful week a couple of weeks ago.  They changed her chemo but I didn't write the name of it down.  She didn't get out of bed for almost ... http://nickysfight.com/?p=172 Mom got chemo yesterday but the doctors left out the Avastin for this round since she is having so many complications on it.  She's really unhappy about the weight she has gained over the last year.  They are going to test her thyroid next week to make sure that isn't the culprit.  ... http://nickysfight.com/?p=171 We finally met with the doctors and discussed the latest PetScan.  There is no new disease!  And the intensity appears to be the same or maybe even dimmer.  Whew!  So it looks like we are still holding our own against the cancer.  It's not going anywhere but it's not grown ... http://nickysfight.com/?p=170