I know it's been a long time since I've posted on here, but it is been a multi decision half year. I started going to the gym in January and feeling really good about four weeks into it. About two weeks after that I started having more pain in my lower chest upper diaphragm area and stop going to the gym. I slowly declined in what I could do that was beyond walking and went for scans again in March. The scans in March according to the doctor show that I was still stable but my CEA tumor markers had nearly doubled. My specialist told me that he doubts he would ever do another surgery on me unless I had a life-threatening condition that he could fix. He also debating whether not to continue following me or not but his nurse asked when would Jeremy get another appointment and he said let's make it for July. He told me to go home to my local oncologist and see if he could come up with a plan for slow down this cancer. Shortly after getting home I decided to get another opinion. I had an appointment three weeks after that to fly to another specialist in Southern California. My pain has gotten worse so I went and talked to my oncology team invoicing and they put me on morphine along with continuing to take hydrocodone for pain. My first specialist had sent my tumors from my first surgery to a place in Phoenix that does a test to find out what the what best treatment is against the tumors. Those results showed that the chemotherapy I have been taking would have some benefit to my tumors, which it did, however, it only slowed things down. The test also revealed that the chemotherapy used in my abdomen during my surgery might've had no benefit at all against my particular tumors. I went to the specialist in Southern California and he looked over my records and looked over my scans and did not have enough information to make a decision. He requested my slides for my first surgery and another scan to see if he could get a clear picture of what was going on inside me. About a week after he had all the information he said that he would do a surgery on me but couldn't guarantee he could get everything but he would do his best to try and get it all. So I decided to proceed with surgery again as that is the best outcome for extending my life. I am in San Diego now and my surgery is scheduled for tomorrow. My recovery is expected to take anywhere from 6 to 21 days before I'm even out of the hospital and then several months again to get strong enough to do normal stuff. I won't know how successful the surgery goes until after I wake up and after I talk to the doctor but we're hopeful that he can get all or most of it. If he can get all visible signs he will give me another HIPEC but this time with a different drug inside my abdomen. That is what I'm hoping for, however, that is not the probability. Only time will tell. Life hasn't been all worrisome. We have had a great time as Sharette and I went to Las Vegas to see some friends back in March. Then she and I and the boys went snowmobiling and skiing. We also went to a local escape room where we had to look for clues and figure out how to escape. We nearly broke the all-time record that stood for the last two years, however, we got stuck on the second to last clue even though it turned out we had solved it, we just didn't pay attention. It was a good time and Joey wants to do that again in one of the other rooms.So after the surgery and after I recover our current plans are in August to go up to the San Juan Islands an to Canada. In September Sharette and my plan is to spend our 25th anniversary in Memphis, Nashville and St. Louis and see them play the Cubs. Also, possibly in October head down to Arizona for her sisters wedding/reception. Also James and I are planning on going to the batting cages when I recover so I can show him how in the olden days I used to be able to crank the ball out of the park. I don't know if I'll ever get to do that but it's still in the plans. If I don't have a full and complete cytoreduction surgery I am more than likely going to have to go on some type of postoperative treatment. Again time will tell. I'll post more when I know more. Thanks for all your love and support.
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Jeremy & SharetteThey will be providing updates on Jeremy's treatment and prognosis whenever there is news to report. PArchivesy
January 2021
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