Good News
10.31.20 Yesterday was filled with so much good news!!! We got an appointment scheduled at CHOP for next Friday!!! I called MSK and the codes went through at 3:29!! She said she would call on Monday with an appointment slot.
And then! Our oncologist called with results of the MRI! She said the tumor definitely has necrotic looking areas — it looks moth eaten instead of homogeneously solid. Also, osteosarcoma doesn’t always shrink, but Liam’s shrank from 20 cm at diagnosis to 16.2 cm!!
I’m so excited about this because it will make surgery easier. There is still no distal hip or knee involvement and no skip lesions. Please God let it stay that way!
As for the lung nodules, one disappeared, one stayed stable, and one new one appeared. They obsessed over it for a long time and feel fairly certain it’s not osteo. None of them are big enough to biopsy and they are thought to simply be inflammation. They aren’t calcified. They don’t look like osteo. You would expect the stable one to have shrunk if it was osteo or grown if it was chemo resistant and you would not expect a new one to grow while on chemo. There’s really nothing to do but watch and pray.
But for now, we’ll celebrate and praise for the wonderful news!