Lymphoma WHO???

REMISSION!  It's gone.  It's all, excuse me, freaking gone!!!  By HIS stripes I am healed!  Claiming it and believing it!!

I am so overwhelmed- I can't get the words out that I want to share.  Kind of still processing and maybe a little bit of trying to wrap my mind over this.  How amazing is our Healer! 

My PET scan showed "no activity".  The tumor in my chest is still there- eww- but the cancer cells have been destroyed.  Doc used the analogy of a honey comb...honey is sucked out, but the comb is still there.  EVENTUALLY my body will absorb that, but it's a big sucker.

Doc showed PET from December and last week- you can see the difference.  I have some inflammation where the biopsy was done, but that should clear itself up as my healing continues.  I can tell the difference myself.  I was worried about that "lump" and had myself convinced that it was more lymphoma.....probably what I will do for the rest of my life...which is really annoying.

I will need to do 2 more rounds of chemo though.  JUUUUUST to make sure.  I am ok with that.  I will have another PET in April after the last round and from there the plan of what comes next happens.  My doc is very much a step at a time guy and didn't give me any idea of monitoring afterward...like every 3 months or 6 months PET??  He did talk about radiation consult again, but he said if the next PET looks like this one he would agree with no radiation neccessary. 

So.  How about that news?  On a Friday nonetheless....a week before my birthday!  It's a brand new year.

My friend, Stephanie, dropped by with the girls after school so I could tell them.  Lina smiled and hugged.  Lydia lifted my hat to see if my hair grew back and asked if my port was out.  LOLOL!  Oh honey.  I told them 2 more medicine rounds to do yet, but (interupts Lyd, 5 years old mind you) "the lymphoma is gone".  Yes, sweet girl...lymphoma who??!?!?!!?  Jesus heard our prayers.  BY HIS STRIPES I AM HEALED!!