Friday was a busy day.  We met with the oncologist and to our surprise didn’t talk about the PET results until just before we concluded the meeting.  She did an exam and believes all that she felt was scar tissue from the chemo.  The PET didn’t “light up” anywhere.  This is good.  Like so good that we shook the marbles in our heads for a second after she said it.  She seems to think that the chemo ate up the cancer like the orcas ate up that baby blue whale (thanks R for making that connection!!).  It seems that the cancer is gone.  While psyched out of our minds we found ourselves on the road to Bangor for the MRI, heads down as we met the next task.  Like there was not the time or space to celebrate appropriately.  Also, celebration feels a bit premature as we still have more before us.  We ARE grateful for this, mind you.

So then we went up to Bangor for the MRI.  The surgeon wanted it done at the same machine as the original. Wisdom there.  We arrived early and went out for lunch.  I couldn’t get enough hot and sour soup.  MMMMM.  The MRI went off without a hitch.  On the walk back to the dressing room I asked the tech what she thought all the clanging was about in the MRI and she said something about my molecules flipping back and forth.  B and I have a joke that it is just noise to remind the patient that s/he is in a tube.  

Back down for acupuncture, and thankfully he could see me early before A’s soccer scrimmage.  He did some energy work/massage.  The scrimmage was fun and I was disappointed that neither B nor I could muster an ounce of energy, except to get home.  The last football game would have to go down without us, to A and E’s disappointment.  They cooperated well enough with that decision and we made it home.

We have questions.  Lots of questions.  From the oncologist’s point of view, it goes surgery then follow up chemo/radiation depending on what the surgeon says.  From the acupuncturist’s point of view, if the cancer is gone, how much more has to be done?  From the surgeon’s point of view…we will find out Monday morning.  There is wisdom in the amazing strides medicine has made in the treatment of breast cancer.  There is not as much study on the neoadjuvent chemo approach, and this is what we will learn more about tomorrow.