Wednesday, December 14, 2005

"Your tumour less than 50%"

Today was a busy day. I woke up early to make a mutton biriyani - I'd planned it out last night, had the recipie out and measured out the ingredients. But Dr. B from hematology called mid morning to say that since tomorrow was going to be the 7th cycle of chemo (mid way), I'd need to get a CT scan done before I came in. So I was told to keep nil orally and go in at 2:30 pm for the scan.
The cooking plans got shelved, and I went off to town to pay my mobile phone bill (absolutely loony system which involves standing in line for an hour to deposit a cheque). Watched as the rest of the family wolfed down grub - 'rumble, growl!', and drove to hospital alone for my scan. The scan didn't take too long, but having the line started for the contrast hurt a bit. I went over to Dr. R to have her look at my films. She's the head of radiology here and a foster mother to Anne and me. She took one look and said "your tumour is down by 50% in 40 days!" Every day we have so many reasons to be happy, grateful to God and hopeful and today was no different!
Anne is doing better today too, she had a bad gastritis yesterday probably due to her Iron medication but was up and about today. The snap alongside is one of Anne and my mom together in my hospital room.

4 comments:

ജെയിംസ് ബ്രൈറ്റ് said...

I am very pleased to hear that your tumour is shrinking now.
My sincere wishes to you and your family.
I am also working in haematology.

Take care.

James

Anonymous said...

koby's growth seems to be inversely proportional to the tumour's growth!good going...

Sujith said...

guess i have to pay a visit to ur house once to eat the mutton biriyani. :-) being outside kerala i miss all those cuisines of kerala :-(

Sushil said...

I came across your blog today from the Melam aggregator. I couldnt help but read through your earlier posts as well. You have a very good and positive way of writing about a very tough subject. I admire your courage and wanted to say that Im sure your writing will be a source of inspiration for a lot of others. So please do keep posting when you can. I hope to be a regular reader as I have added you to my RSS subscriptions (could you enable full feeds though please?).

I do wish you the best in your fight against cancer and want to see you win the fight. And also congrats on the good news about going to be a father that is indeed a great joy and a blessing. As you said in an earlier post ...there may be negatives in your life which seem pretty big but you have many great positives as well to override the negatives.