Greetings Friends!
I have some good news and some bad news. First the good news! WE HAVE KICKED MEL TO THE CURB!!!! I have completely responded to the Keytruda and am currently No Evidence of Recurrent Disease (NERD) for Melanoma. But wait, there's more. Also I move from Stage 4 back down to Stage 3c. This is awesome and worthy of a celebratory happy dance, but unfortunately it's uniquely connected to the bad news.
Last Thurs I had a biopsy of the mystery meat in my left lung and it came back as adenocarcinoma, non-small cell lung cancer, not melanoma. So the plan is to have surgery to remove the lung lobe with the tumor "Larry" in it and some lymph nodes If the cancer has not spread to my lymph nodes, then surgery should be all that I need. If it has spread, then I'll need more treatment, but I'm getting ahead of myself. I'll deal with that only if need be.
Right now this is all I know. The hospital is organizing all that is needed for surgery, but it's not an emergency. I'll let you know.
So this is the news. Thanks again friends for walking with me in this.
Shalom,
Julie
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