I am a little slow in the uptake. Rob had his scan two weeks ago. I know. I haven't fallen off the face of the earth - I have just been abnormally tired. I am sure that you have been waiting with bated breath....
As you are well aware (or not), every scan Rob has had over the last year - his tumors have doubled in size as well as new tumors developing.
You may not know that Rob and I ran a little experiment during the three-month hiatus. We swore off refined sugar. No, this was not something that the doctor recommended. I was doing a little thinking about those pesky tumors. When he would go in for his PET scans, Rob had to drink glucose prior to the scan. The glucose would then head straight to the tumors - they love it. So, it made sense to me that tumors like sugar.
It was not sensible to exclude all types of sugar, so we just kept it to refined.
We got the scan results back from Rob's doctor. The cancer grew, but didn't double - it was more like 60% instead of 100% (that is good, right?). Additionally, there were no new growths. He still has all the previously grown tumors, but nothing new (that is good, right?).
So, since nothing earth-shattering happened with the cancer growth (or lack thereof), Rob decided he wanted to go back on the sugar wagon. He has been dying (no pun intended) for a chocolate bar for some time now. Needless to say, we have been getting a few sugar-related headaches. I think that I felt better when there was no refined sugar in my body. It is not fun to come back down from a sugar-high.
We are thinking about the possibility of chemo in the future. However, we have to think about the statistical possibility of it doing nothing and weigh it against the side-effects. (It will not cure him, but it could slow things down.) We have a whole-lot-of-thinking to do in the next while. If you have any extra Thinking Caps, send them our way! : )
