Medical Update

I just got back from the oncologist's office.  First he said that I looked better, healthier, than I was when he saw me last week.  Then he told me that I had gained 6 pounds since then.  I told him that my swallowing problems have gone and that I was back to eating normally.  "This is good", was his reply.  He felt the area above the left collarbone, the site of the enlarged node that initially indicated the problem.  He said that aside from the scar tissue from the biopsy that he could feel nothing - the tumor there is gone.  He ordered a CAT scan for 5/21, after the second treatment rather than waiting for after the third, as was the original plan.  He asked if I still had a cough and I told him yes but that it is significantly less than it was.  He indicated that this was good, as well.  The second chemotherapy treatment is scheduled for 10am on 5/9.  We are winning, and on 5/21 we will know by how much.  We're not finished, surely not by a long shot, but we are winning.  Thanks for all the help.