Thanks to Friends!

Finally Unpacked, thanks to Friends!

It's been a few weeks since I've have some down time to update everyone on how I am doing. Well, I've been super busy now since the kids have started school and been busy with the unpacking into the house.

This past weekend, thanks to some awesome team of close friends, they all came to help us organize and pack all of our stuff into our house! We're so incredibly lucky and fortunate to have Kim coordinate and recruit all my friends from all over the bay area to come help us finally put beds together and organize stuff into the house. Thanks also to those who couldn't make it but were able to either send over pizza and or donate to the cost of the movers to help us with the heavy items. We can't thank everyone enough for their enormous help, time and love to come support us! We couldn't have done any unpacking without our wonderful friends, so a million endless thanks to them!!

CT Scan

As for me, other than being super mom, driving the kids to and from school, cooking, cleaning, I'm doing ok, just a litte tired now that we don't have any nanny help. Now that Ethan's in kindergarten and Ellen is in full time preschool, and with no nanny help, I try to make all my doctor and scans appointments early in the morning.  Which means me getting up by 6-630AM and getting to Standford by 8AM every 3 weeks.  Everything is all planned around their school schedule or activities so I'm constantly busy. 

I just got a CT scan done just yesterday.  Like with every CT scan, I'm always nervous about the outcome of the results. I should find out the results soon and will post it this week. I just got a call that I'm also due for another MRI next month. My doctor still wants me to be on Tarceva, 150 mg still.  It's been a little over 2 months since I've been on Tarceva. I'm still hoping for the miracle power it will do to shrink the tumors away. But, I'm not sure if it's doing it since I feel my lungs ache a little and well, my back is starting to ache and everywhere in my body, its sorta hurts too. 

It's a struggle everyday to live with having this terrible lung cancer. Every breath I take, I feel the heaviness of the cancer in me.

New Drug, Denosumab

Today, with the help of my Dad who woke up early to drive me to Stanford, I had my first monthly shot of Denosumab injection (brand name Xgeva).  I'm scheduled to get this shot once a month every month. Since I have bone mets, this is used to prevent bone related problems in patients with cancer.  I didn't like Zumeta and so this is another drug alternative that supposed to work like Zumeta does. Like all medicines, the list of sides effects are worrisome and major too. Some of the sides effects include severe bone, muscle or back pain, swelling in hands, ankles, or feet and many others. I hope my body can tolerate this better and that this shot will help strengthen my bones.

Let's continue to hope and pray for positive results and continue good recovery.