In a Nutshell

I just got home from Nashville...........Not real good but I am still here, and as long as I can put 2 feet on a cool floor every morning all will be well, after that, well, I won't have much say in it anyway.....
The path reports came back on the 2 areas that were "thought" to be inflammation. Turns out its cancer as well as the nodule that was taken out of my windpipe. Pretty certain that the 2 spots that showed up on the PET were nodes in the chest area.
The spot on the liver is simply just that, a spot and we are going as if it is cancer as well. I opted to not do a biopsy yet and instead to start chemo and then watch what the liver does as well as the spots on my lung and windpipe...
My Onc tells me that I have a very small amount of cancer in my body but its simply the areas that it is located is what is so tricky. They are not going to remove all surgery options as of yet but for now chemo seems to be the right protocol to try and stabilize or shrink what is there. She tells me that I have a better than normal chance to beat the statistics because of the minimal amount of cancer I have and the shape I am in. It also took 2 years for the first spot to met and then 1 year for the next spot. She says mine is slow in growing and if chemo can stabilize it I may live a long time. I guess we will see.
I will be doing the standard protocol of Folfiri with Avastin. One day every 2 weeks with an approx infusion time of 2.5 hrs...then a fanny pack for 2 days following. I asked her if this would be forever and she said yes, as long as it was keeping it at bay...She will also check on my tumors to see if they tested for K-ras mutation...that gives them another arsenal as far as receptor initiative treatment.
So I am now on maintenance chemo. She says that chemo breaks are often done if a patient responds well there are times when people take breaks from treatment and they simply keep an eye out for scans and if it starts showing progression again then back on the chemo again.....
Its not what I was hoping for but for some reason the thought of another surgery right now just doesn't seem to appealing.
I am officially retiring September 21st on my 6 year olds birthday and I will start to actually act like a retired person.
I am as are we all hoping that in the 2-5 years that are in front of me that someone will progress in this disease to where we can have 2-5 more then 2-5 more and so on ...I think we will get there someday..Its my hope for us all...til then, when life hands you a lemon.................throw it in the trash !!! LOL.......no matter how chitty it gets.........Life is Still Good.........love to all, buzz