We are home now and still feeling a little tired from our Germany trip but not doing too bad. We went to the Temple this morning and did some banking, getting our gift money transferred to Trevor today.
Last Tuesday I could not understand why I couldn’t make contact with Tom in the hospital and when I finally did he told me they had been doing CT scans on him and were concerned with what they were seeing, more cancer spots in pelvis area and not the reactions they had hoped from the lutetium treatments.We were broken hearted and I didn’t sleep that night. The doctors have not given up and nor will I.
I arrived back to the hospital early the next morning to receive my covid test. They had me isolate in the third floor waiting room for two hours until they had my negative results. Tom received his covid test too and was released from his 48 hours of isolation in the afternoon and able to spend sometime with me which was wonderful. Things are just better when we can be together. We stayed in the waiting room and listened to some Come Follow Me broadcasts. I managed to receive a FaceTime call from Cindy while standing in the hall as they were driving to the airport to take Jack for his flight to Salt Lake. I was able to say goodbye to him which was great. He will spend a month there for MTC training before leaving for Africa.
I packed up Thursday morning and paid my room bill at the hospital and then went upstairs to get Tom. He had his final scan and packed up himself before coming out to be with me. He did some hall walking and was doing great. We waited and waited for the Doctor to come in for our final meeting. He finally came with little time before our limo arrived. He is not giving up on the lutetium. He wants us to change hormone therapy, check Tom’s genetic profile, get another PSMA pet scan in two months to determine if an addition to the lutetium would be beneficial and have us return in about 2 1/2 months. He said his PSA number would probably go down. Our limo driver arrived and while Tom was finishing up with the Doctor, she and I managed to get Tom’s walker in the trunk without taking it apart. The men drivers and Tom had not accomplished that before. We had a lovely drive back to Frankfurt and the Marriott Hotel. I went to Lufthansa service counter and booked a wheelchair pickup for Tom tomorrow morning and got out seat assignments and boarding passes. We walked to dinner at the Italian Restaurant and then for groceries. Tom walked the whole way without a walker and with little pain. A miracle! Also, another miracle - the cancer spot in his shoulder has almost disappeared!
The wheelchair pickup arrived in the morning at the hotel and got us to our gate. Upon arrival in Vancouver, we were randomly selected to be covid tested at the airport. Paul picked us up and got us safely home. Dear Jean brought us dinner which was much appreciated. We got ourselves settled and did our laundry and then slept for 12 hours, waking when Trevor FaceTimed us Saturday morning. We were exhausted. Just relaxed for rest of Saturday and did our Church and family zoom meetings on Sunday. We were up early on Monday for Tom to receive blood tests and we picked up some groceries. As predicted Tom’s PSA was down but so were his white and red blood counts.
Our life is a series of ups and downs these days but we have faith and hope and carry on just grateful to be together.
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