CPR

Just back from Dr D.
 Best news possible: CPR ie Complete Pathological Response. That means that right now, there is not a single cancer cell to be found in my body. From Stage IV, highly aggressive to nothing at all.  Thanks to Herceptin, I hope to stay clean for a very long time.

We are told that there are a number of new drugs in the offing that will work with Herceptin, so that the prognosis will be even better for more people. I hope that I won't even need them - so far Herceptin has saved my life. Two years or so ago, I would have been a 'gonner'. We live in a truly miraculous medical age and may it just go from strength to strength.


Still have drainage tube and little rubber bag coming out of my arm.  The plasters sticking into me are driving me nuts.  But I feel well and am going to be returning to normal functioning very soon. I also hope to visit NY in the gap before radiation begins. I was going to start thinking about a diet, but then Channah said: wait until after radiation and why not put off something so horrible as a diet?


I am profoundly grateful to everyone: from my wonderful doctors who literally saved my life, to all of the people who gave me support, without which the doctors' work would have been fruitless.
Just think: all this has taken less than 5 months from beginning to end. What a world!!!!