A week for tests

• Bloodwork, appointment with Dr. T and treatment at Siteman South County

I was feeling a lot of anxiety last night about today, but I woke up feeling ready. We got to Siteman early and settled in. They accessed my port for my bloodwork and left the needle in (reasoning: because I was scheduled to get treatment after I saw Dr. T.)

It was a long wait to see him, a couple of hours, but it was worth it to see him face to face. And while starting Folfori chemo today was an option, he thinks that we need to run some tests first to establish a baseline right now status for my disease before we do anything new.  So I'll have a CEA blood test, a Guardant liquid biopsy test and a CT this week. And I'll meet with Dr. T again next week to go over it all, unless the CT makes the decision really clear. In that case, it could be something that we discuss on the phone and jump directly into next week.

We talked about Folfori, about maintenance chemo possibly being an option again and about immunotherapy clinical trial options. It's so much to think about.

To free our minds a little bit, Hector and I went for a walk, the longest one we've taken in months. It was slow and hot and well... the conversation kept circling back to all the things we talked about with Dr. T... but how could it not.