Wonderful news!

So as many of you know by now I got wonderful news Thursday!!! Looks like the meds are working and the tumors on my lungs are shrinking!!! WOooooooooot!! The doctor showed us my scans from March and my current scans to show us the difference in the sizes of the tumors. I'm telling you I was so excited!!! For some reason i just didn't have a good feeling about this trial, but it proved me wrong. All the prayers have been answered. I ask for everyone to continue to pray the meds continue to work. If ya'll remember the last trial I was on worked for a little while but then the tumors started growing again. I was so excited I couldn't call everyone fast enough. lol My clinical nurse said my trips to see them will be less since I'm in the 3rd phase of the trial. That will help a lot because it's so expensive. Not much else is going on. Brayden just finished his 4th grade year. We got his scores back on his TAKS. He missed 3 on the reading and ZERO on the Math!! I'm so proud of him. Hope everyone has a fun, safe summer!! Remember to protect yourself and your kiddos from the sun!!!

A little ER visit

Had a little scare today. I think I scared myself more than anything. But when something new comes up, or I have some new symptom it just really freaks me out!! I started feeling yuck at work this afternoon. Came home for lunch and my heart felt like it was about to beat out of my chest. So I took my blood pressure and it was okay, but my heart rate was like 111. Well my heart rate goes up like that quit a bit, so it didn't bother me too much. Well I took my temp and it was 100.9!! Okay RED LIGHT!! Since day one I've been told if I have a temp I need to be looked at because temps usually mean infection somewhere, and thats a BIG no with someone in my condition. So I called my Clinical Nurse and she advised me to go to the ER to get checked out. Blood test were run, and x-rays were took. The PA that was working the ER called and talked to my nurse and went over everything. They decided I was okay to go home. My nurse in Houston said that it's probably just side effects of the pills I'm taking. But it was a good idea to go get checked out just in case. Kind of irritated me because I wasn't aware that a temp and the chills could be a side effect. If I would have known that I probably wouldn't have freaked out so much. Think my heart rate was a steady 140 when I went in. They filled me full of 2 bags of fluids and I was outta there. I've also been having a lot of aching in my legs, and this morning when I got out of bed I noticed it had went down to my feet. I'm thinking the aching is probably some type of the "chills". I dunno, I'm no doctor, but my legs are killing me and that's what I'm diagnosing myself with lol. Still not feeling to hot. Just took a warm bath to see if it would help my legs, but no luck. Fixing to get out the heating pad. I'll try anything. If anyone has any suggestions throw them my way.

Everything else is going okay. We leave Monday for Houston. I go for restaging and will find out that Thursday if the meds are working. Everyone keep their fingers, toes, arms.....everything crossed for me! I need good news!!

Quick Update

I just got home from Houston. Had a quick trip up there for Blood work, EKG and I saw the Clinical Nurse. Blood work and EKG were good. They upped my meds. I will be taking 3 twice a day, instead of 2 twice a day. That's it, everything is still the same. The 27th is the BIG DAY. That's when we find out if the meds are working. Just a quick update. I'm about to crawl in bed, gotta work tomorrow.