Phil had his appointment with the oncologist yesterday to get his results from Tuesday's scan. The results of the scan were as expected (apparently....). The largest tumor is now 12mm, from a previous 5mm, (last scan was December), there are also more spots, which are small tumors.
It would be nice if we (Mel and Kris) had some idea of what that ACTUALLY meant in terms of when and what will happen next. Feels pretty vague at the moment. He isn't going to be having any chemotherapy and as Melinda said the other day, he is too young for a clinical trial.
BTW Phil looks to be the picture of health, no signs of what's lurking beneath.
On other fronts things are good. It's Mel's 21st on Saturday night so we are gearing up for a big party....Mum has been cooking for weeks.
Phil, Jen, Mum and Dad are going to Tasmania for 3 weeks over the school holidays.
Melinda is sitting next to me and just said "It doesn't sounds like much information, does it?...But it's all we know eh...." so there you have it. Updated.
K and M. x
Friday, March 13, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
A little update
Hey all, Melinda here. I'm the middle sister. Kris said in the last post that I would be uploading photos of our time away, and I most certainly will...just been having a few technical difficulties known as 'new computeritis'.
So what's the latest? Not much really. Phil had an appointment with his oncologist a little while ago (maybe a week ag0?), which was fairly uneventful, but he did say that it doesn't look like Phil will get into any of the clinical drug trials that may have been a possibility. This is basically because he isn't yet 18, and isn't terribly unexpected I suppose.
In other news, Phil has gone down to the Royal Kids today to have a CT scan of his lungs, which will tell us what the tumors are doing-growing, staying the same size, etc. He then has a further appointment with the oncologist on Thursday, which is when we will get the results of the CT scan. No idea what sort of news we will get with these results, just back into the waiting game for a little while....
I (or someone!) will write again when we have those results, so you can all be kept in the loop.
Thanks for all your prayers and support :)
So what's the latest? Not much really. Phil had an appointment with his oncologist a little while ago (maybe a week ag0?), which was fairly uneventful, but he did say that it doesn't look like Phil will get into any of the clinical drug trials that may have been a possibility. This is basically because he isn't yet 18, and isn't terribly unexpected I suppose.
In other news, Phil has gone down to the Royal Kids today to have a CT scan of his lungs, which will tell us what the tumors are doing-growing, staying the same size, etc. He then has a further appointment with the oncologist on Thursday, which is when we will get the results of the CT scan. No idea what sort of news we will get with these results, just back into the waiting game for a little while....
I (or someone!) will write again when we have those results, so you can all be kept in the loop.
Thanks for all your prayers and support :)
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