day.... ummmm 6?

i'm cancer free!!!!!! i got my final pathology reports today and they were all negative! hooray!! all 6 nodes they removed were clear, and there were no new masses. the tumor that we had been watching and had shrunk to 5ml hadn't grown or changed at all, even though i hadn't had chemo in 2 months :) yay!!

i will still have 12 rounds of taxol- to make sure that any stray cells floating around in my body are taken care of. what i learned with the whole bone scare last month is that cancer *can* travel w/o leaving evidence in the lymph nodes... it travels in the blood. so the lymph nodes are a marker, not a promise. but it's good that there's no *evidence* of it traveling in my nodes.

i finally got my oncologist to enter me into "the equation" that he has for my recurrence percentage. basically, if i had had no chemo, and just surgery, there was a 20-30% chance of it coming back. the chemo knocks that to about 10-15%, and my body's reaction to the chemo lowers it even more :) yay!!! love it, love it. i mean there's probably a 10% chance of a lot of things happening to me- including winning the lottery, but that's not something i'm willing to bank on- i'm still working ;)

thank you all for all of your cards- i love them :) and i got to spend the afternoon chatting with my friend deyana, and she brought us dinner which i'm about to go eat with symma and kj. izzy's still with my mom. she just doesn't get the whole "being gentle" thing. she's soooooo happy when she sees me, and she doesn't get it that i can't hold her.

love to you all :)