I know, it's been 8 weeks since the last post. That was when we got home from Houston. Well, we just got home from Houston, again. This trip home was a little different. The news this morning was not as good as other trips. There was a shadow of a spot on my liver last time, and it has grown significantly. The primary tumor on the pancreatic head may be slightly more prominent. The tumor marker in my blood is is at 7.8 (normal level is 1 - 47), last time it was 2, previously it was less than 1. Bottom line, the disease is active again and I will go back on the same chemo regimen I was on last year. I will be getting infusions every other week. I don't really want to, but I am hopeful we can get those started this week. My next checkup is August 23 - 24.
On the positive side, we enjoyed our trip. We left on Saturday afternoon, stopped in Hugo, OK for the night, and had a good Mexican dinner.
On the road Sunday, we stopped at a peach orchard north of Canton, TX, where they sell home made peach and strawberry ice cream. REALLY GOOD ice cream.
Sunday night in Houston we went to Goode's Armadillo Palace for burgers and a beer. I decided Saint Arnold's beer, brewed in Houston, is good stuff.
My CT scan on Monday was done by noon, so I was able to recover and felt good enough to go out for a BBQ dinner. We tried out Goode Co. BBQ (across the street from the Armadillo). It wasn't bad, but not the best BBQ I've had.
Today we stopped at a farmer's market in Canton, TX and got a watermelon, a couple cantaloupes, garden ripened tomatoes, and black berries. We decided later we should have added fresh peas and sweet corn. Oh, Well! And, we stopped for more home made ice cream. We WILL stop there again in August.