It’s no wonder I feel like an emotional yo-yo these days.

The latest “good news” is that the second biopsy of the peritoneal area also came back negative, so that is a definite thing and Ricardo says there’s no way it could be a false negative.  On the other hand, the CT scan showed two spots in the area that could be tumours. Meanwhile, it also showed – are you ready? – that my liver tumours have seemingly disappeared! Like – WTF?

Ricardo is at a loss to explain any of this, especially as he got this information for me by telephone and didn’t see the results himself. But there will be a clinical session on Wednesday morning which Isabel (from The Team) will attend and he says they will be able to give me a better idea of what’s going on after that. Though I was told I shouldn’t be surprised if they want me to have another PET scan, and so I’m not going to believe the other tumours are gone until that’s done.

Zoomer was here when I got the phone call from Ricardo (Nog was out teaching) and he immediately gave me a big bear hug and was smiling ear to ear … but although I was very pleased about some of the news, I didn’t want to get overly-excited about it. Been there. It’s worse when you aren’t acknowledging the worst still might just happen.

Other good news of the day.  I got a lovely and totally unexpected ‘goody bag’ from Lizzie in the post today. Trashy mags, tea, organic chocolate, lip balm, Bach flower rescue remedy, body scrub and special soap, and a whack of info (including a dvd) from the Penny Brohn Cancer Centre.  And I also got a notice that the Anti-Cancer book from hmh is waiting for me at the post office. All this after a very nice lunch out with zoomer, Nog and Pipocas – and Dr A even stopped by to meet everyone.

I’m very happy. It was a fabulous day.

~ image from snore & guzzle ~