Lisa's Results

Hi, this is Suzi and I am a friend of Lisa's. Lisa asked if I wouldn't mind posting her update this time as she knows some of you are waiting for the results. It's been two very long days for Lisa. The results of the scans showed that her bones are clear of cancer as well as her major organs. This is truly a praise. The concern is that the cancer is in her Vascular system. So, as she explained to me, it it in the blood which means it can travel any where and they can not track that so, the plan of attack is going to be a more aggressive plan than she had thought. The plan will be for Lisa to have four rounds of chemo, the next one being April 1st and then she will go in for chemo weekly for 16 weeks. Then she will revisit the prospect of another surgery, radiation and more chemo. So, this will be an aggressive attack on her body. There are a couple of other factors that cause her complications in treatment. First, Lisa has asthma and yesterday at chemo she had an acute attack, which took an extra half hour while they gave her shots of steroids and gained control of her breathing so that they could continue. Then this morning Lisa had a migraine and Scot had to take her into the ER to which she had just got home around 4 this afternoon. She is really exhausted as I am sure you can understand. She is holding up very well and is an inspiration to me. Things we can be praying for are:

-for her immune system to hold up, with chemo she has to be very careful of germs and she
needs her white counts to stay high for each treatment
-that she recovers from each treatment quickly, she is a mom who desires to keep things as
normal for her children as possible
-that these migraines decrease and that she will not have asthma attacks that further
challenge her
-for their family and for strength,energy and health

Lisa thanks you so much for your love and concern. She will post again as soon as she has rested up a bit from yesterday and today.