Zombie continues her cancer journey after chemo

[IamtheZombie]

The thread in Chat has gone to thread heaven. Silly Zombie thought it wasn't due to go until tomorrow so missed her chance to ask HQ to move it here.

She slept well last night and feels reasonably well this morning.

Let the chat commence!

Zombie fantastic photos, thanks for sharing them.

Industrial quantities of tissues being used here!

Safe journey!

So glad that you are there, Zombie, and able to be a part of ZombieLad's life. Isn't it amazing that we can share photos like this so instantly now? Looking at those school reports and baby pictures at last must bring it to mind. The contrast.

If you can't have the original baby pictures of yourself (I can see how you might want ZombieLad to have them) you can always take photos of them (I imagine if they had a scanner they would have sent them to you already, but it might be worth considering the lad getting a scanner to get good quality digital copies of the old photos and documents).

What lovely photos Zombie, I can't imagine how happy you felt having that taken. Would be nice to have one blown up and framed so you can see it all the time. I imagine you are packed / packing now with a heavy heart but you will see him again. Of that I'm sure . Thankyou for sharing such important moments in your life with the damnbuggerfuck team . X

I am just popping in to put the champagne on ice, the nibbles ready to go &
"Welcome Home, Zombie" banners up around the place.

Z should land at Heathrow tomorrow morning.

I'm sure you feeling tired & a bit sad, Zombie but what a trip you've had.

That ZLad of yours is pretty good looking - shame I'm not about 30 years younger!

Fab photos Zombie, what a fantastic experience this had been for you all.

It's just flown by so quickly, you must be physically and emotionally shattered.

Safe trip home sweetheart, hope you can sleep on the plane.

Looking forward to hearing your stories, after a couple of duvet days!

Those ZombieCats will be sooooooo purrleased to see you

Had a text about an hour ago and she had a safe flight...refuelling with coffee and then back on the road to get home can't wait to hear all about it!

Welcome home, Zombie!
What a fantastic experience you've had!
I wish you a speedy recovery from your emotional roller-coaster.
, , and for you.

Welcome home Zombie hope your not too tired from all the travelling. I expect you felt like. A nap when you got home. I'm sure the Zombiecats will be pleased to have you home and will be purring all day long !

Thanks for the message Val

I guess you will be home now Zombie and I can imagine you will be feeling a bit detached and surreal.

I hope you can sleep for a while.

Remember to check your shoes for 'gifts' from the ZCats!

Everything went like clockwork and I'm now safely home in DDS. All ZombieCats are present and accounted for.

I did manage to sleep on the plane but I'm now ready for a nap.

Glad you are home safe. :)

Pleased to hear that you are safely home, snuggle up with the cats and get some rest.

Nice to see you are home safe and sound, enjoy your afternoon nap, I can imagine you must feel drained. I don't know about you but I always feel a bit disorientated when I get back from holiday takes me a couple of days to settle down.so happy for you that you have had such a fab time with your DS

So pleased everything went well & you are home in good time.

Just sleep & rest for a day or do.

Or so

glad to hear you're back safely. I guess you will eat sleep eat sleep for a few days.

((welcome home hugs))

Morning!

I napped for 3 hours and was back in bed at 11.00 last night. I've only just woken up.

Cats are fed and I'm on my first cup of coffee. I'm off to the hospital this afternoon for my next Herceptin infusion.

I've had a letter changing the time of my appointment with my oncologist on the 16th to the last appointment of the day. That no doubt means he has a lot to discuss with me. I'm hoping my MRI report will be with my notes today so I can have a good read.

Whoop, Whoop, WHOOP!!! It appears the CT Scan was WRONG!!

Report on MRI Liver with contrast:

Indication: History of bilateral breast cancer (resected). 2 liver metastases on MRI in June. Recently completed chemotherapy. CT showed no change in the liver metastases and MRI recommended to assess need for possible liver resection.

Findings: Comparison with recent CT dated 14/10/14 and MRI dated 03/06/14.

The 2 ring-enhancing metastatic lesions seen in segment IVb on previous MRI, the larger measuring 16 mm and the smaller adjacent to the gallbladder measuring 5 mm are no longer visible (these are marked as Key images on previous MRI). There is focal fatty change adjacent to the falciform ligament as before. Several simple cysts are also unchanged.

So the hell that was Docetaxel may have been worth it after all.

The other good news is that my CA15-3 level is within the normal range. It's near the top of the normal range but it's still NORMAL.

This may call for a bottle of bubbly.

Please NB - This just means that the cancer is under control for now. It is NOT a cure.

Long time lurker on your posts Zombie and just wanted to say how lovely your ZombieSon photos are and how delighted I am to read your scan update!!

Enjoy the bubbly

Zombie your photos of you and zombieson are brilliant. You both have smiley eyes :)

I'm glad it's under control for now. Enjoy your bubbles.

WHOOP!!!!! WHOOP!!!!! WHOOP!!!!!!
So pleased to hear this. I'd say it is cause for a bottle or several!!
What lovely pictures of you and lad. Thank you so much for sharing.
Hope Zombie cats don't make you suffer too much for leaving them!

I understood the first and last lines of your post, Zombie.

Welcome back Zombie and what a fabulous surprise!
It sounds as if the high you must have been on these last few weeks has not been spoilt by the latest results at all.

That's good news, Zombie!