I want to start off by saying... I'm so glad that I started this blog. I have received such positive feedback. I wanted everyone to feel like they were able to share a little of this with us (the good and the bad ;). Sometimes I would laugh as I wrote a post because I am far from a writer. I am more of a talker ha. I have no problem talking to a room full of people but tell me to write something and it is bound to take me all night. My sister is normally my proof reader and the fabulous writer, she can tell the most amazing story on a piece of paper but me not so much. I swear it takes me hours to get across what I'm thinking in a paragraph. So thank you, for barring with me(and all my grammatical errors)! I'm actually liking this whole blog thing now!
Today was Donnie's final appointment with Dr. Forsythe. Donnie's mom is in Reno so I was able to leave the kids with her and go with him to the clinic. Dr. Forsythe said his blood work looks excellent and he has really taken to the treatment well. He looked in his throat one last time and said that the lump in his throat was completly gone.. Yippee!!! And he felt the lump on his neck and said that he really couldn't feel it anymore. He also felt all his other lymph-nodes, just to make sure none of them were swollen and none were. I asked him if we were still coming back once a week for three weeks for chemo and he said no, he said he doesn't think Donnie needs it. I also asked if they were going to do a MRI or CT scan and he said no, he could tell by feeling his lymph-nodes and blood work. He said their is no use in doing tests that just put unnecessary radiation in his body when he can tell by blood work. Dr. Forsythe said he would consider him in remission if not complete remission. I almost didn't believe him, if I didn't trust him so much I wouldn't. He wants Donnie to continue IV treatments in Vegas for maybe another month or two (vitamin c drip, glutathione). Donnie also needs to receive Rituxin. Rituxin is used mainly on lymphoma patients. It is used as maintenance therapy. Its not chemotherapy and it has no side effects. He will do that once a week for 4 weeks and then again in 6 months. But he will be able to do it in Vegas at the hospital. Then we have another follow up with Dr. Forsythe in 6 weeks, where he will review recent blood work that he will get before going to see him. I don't think we could have heard better news today!
I just can't believe that one month ago he had full blown Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and now he gets to leave in two days without it. All of this displacement, all of this stress, all this money, all this traveling, all has paid off. To hear the doctor say he doesn't need any more chemo, almost brought tears to my eye. And that takes a lot for me :)I may be strong but this has been very trying. And there were times when I didn't know how I was keeping it all together. But man does it feel worth it now! Sometimes I feel like why is it going so easy for us? Why is it happening like they said it would? Im going to be completely honest and candid right now but there are times I feel like we don't deserve it. Like everything is just going so smooth and there are people that battle for years and still wind up dying. But then I remember that we made these decisions, we took a active role, we didn't take no for a answer. We caught it early and we acted immediately. We found what worked and not what some doctor said would. Donnie has been an amazing fighter. He has stuck to a diet that most people would consider impossible. He takes more vitamins then I can even imagine swallowing daily. There are times when I talk to the doctors at the clinic and the patients there when I feel like why doesn't everyone know that theres a place like this. A place where they actually are curing cancer. Where almost every person that goes there has traveled hundreds or miles just to get there. Most of the patients though are there because of trial and error. They are there because they did everything else and none of it worked. They wish they could go back in time,they would have chose this place first. But no one knows, doctors don't tell you about these new treatment and about healing the whole body and how it's possible to have quality of life while fighting cancer. I just feel so blessed that The Century Wellness Clinic was our first option and not our last resort. All of those prayers and positive thoughts from everyone have paid off! We are so grateful for everyone that has supported us and loved us and has gotten us through this. I most definitely think there would be another outcome if even one of the many variables were different!
-Lake Tahoe Below-
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