All clear! 

“They” never said that the week before an MRI scan is a special kind of hell. From co-workers exposing Tom to a nasty bug to a question on insurance coverage, we came into this scan more than a little frazzled. Luckily Tom didn’t get sick and the insurance got straightened out so that just left the big one.I make it a point to go to the scans to show Tom support, but also because if there is a recurrence, all the stories of others say the tech has the patient stay put and a doctor is called. I was sitting in the waiting room toward the end of the hour and the nurse who is running the MRI trial Tom was in came and sat next to me and gave me (what I interpreted as a concerned look) and asked how I was doing. I made small talk and caught her up on all things Tom and then the paranoia hit me that she was stalling until a doctor could come see us. Then she said she was hoping for a good outcome on his scan for him and left. Whew. And they let us leave. We didn’t get any early “it’s all clear” signs that we have gotten before the appt so we waited the 24 hours getting progressively more nervous. The resident checked Tom out and said he was doing great and said he was going to just now go look at the scan with the head neuro oncologist and would be back. 20 min later they finally came in with “looks good!”. Whew!!! It took them awhile because they were debating if the cavity where the tumor was had shrunk since the last scan. It takes awhile for a week of fear to leave your body but we are feeling pretty elated now. They even bumped Tom out to every 3 months for scans vs every 2 months so another good sign that things are moving in the right direction. Tonight Tom starts another round of chemo and tomorrow we see our favorite, Dr. Jerry. As always, thanks to all of you for your support and strength! I hope to have Team Food Baby up and running for this year’s Tumor walk by the end of the week!