Unta Gleeben Glauben Globen

23 February 2010 | Blaine cancer

You know *exactly* what I’m talking about, right?

The opening to that Def Leppard song, that none of us knew what on earth it really meant, or what the hell they were actually saying, but we all liked it, and knew it made us feel good?

Yeah, that’s sort of how I feel about this:

In a nutshell:  “Previous lesion in cavernous sinus (brain cavity)  — GONE.”

And, even better news:  “No new lesions”

How’s that for a great report?

I mean, we’re not exactly throwing Blaine a ticker tape parade and calling it a day.  He’s still got all the previous tumors … in his cheeks, near his carotid artery in the neck, in his sinus cavities ….   Fortunately, they’ve all responded well to radiation, and are all dormant at this time.  I say “at this time”, not to be pessimistic, but because, well, let’s be honest.  The cancer has spread three times already.  Would we really be shocked if it spread again?  No.    Will he continue to get MRIs done every three months, to see if they’ve spread?  Yes.  Does this mean he is cured from cancer?  No, I wouldn’t say that.  But as long as the rest of the tumors remain dormant, he is in remission.  As long as no new tumors pop up anywhere, he won’t have to undergo any new cancer treatments.  We just continue to work on the side effects from the previous treatments, which to be honest, are probably worse than the cancer treatments themselves.

BUT!!!  For one of the tumors to respond so completely to radiation that it disappears completely????  Hey, I’ll take that as a blessing from above, any day.

Even if the majority of  the language from the rest of the MRI report is all unta, gleeben, glauben, globen to me.


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