We got some amazing news this morning, and I'm kinda doing a happy dance over here. The husband half of our closest friends was diagnosed with bladder cancer almost 2 years ago. He went through some chemo and they made a plan to do a cystectomy (remove his bladder and put in a stoma). Before they did the surgery they needed to do one more scan...and they found spots on his liver. The cystectomy is intended to get rid of the cancer before it spreads...and they were too late. Heavy round of chemo last spring (very debilitating), and another scan said the liver spots had increased. At that point, they told him he would not see 65 (this was a month or so before his 64th birthday). Last ditch effort, they tried a newer drug (Keytruda). He had scans in November, and everything was shrinking. He had scans yesterday, and today they told us all the scans were clear!
He'll be on Keytruda for the rest of his life, but he will HAVE a "rest of his life" now. So happy for them that words cannot express it fully!!!
I'm glad I read through the whole post. After leading off with "We got some amazing news this morning" your story was really depressing for about 6 sentences.
Glad to hear about your friend's recovery. Any defeat of cancer is a great one! Time can't ever be replaced.