Scans

The time has come for Annabelle's end of treatment imaging.  A time we've been anxiously waiting for and also anxiously fearing.  She had her MRI today and will head back in tomorrow for x-rays, a CT scan, echocardiogram, and a bone scan.  We will see the Dr tomorrow afternoon to get all of the results.  She did great with the sedation for her MRI today and is feeling fine.  I, however, am concerned with the preliminary results the radiologist gave me.  I am grateful that he came out to talk to me, though, because it turned out that her last MRI (Augsust 2011) was mislabeled and therefore wasn't showing up for him.  He was comparing today's results with her MRI from diagnosis, so he was saying she has had a remarkable response as her tumor was quite large at diagnosis and today he only saw a 6mm area that he wasn't sure whether it was residual tumor or scar tissue.  I immediately picked up on the 6mm figure because in August they had reported a similar finding that was 3mm in size.  After speaking with me, the radiologist did some searching in her file and that's how he found her August MRI had been mislabeled.  He came back out and said he had found it and would use it for comparison, and that's all he had to say.  It left me a little uneasy, as you can imagine, so I'm praying for peace and comfort as we get the results tomorrow!

I will do my best to post as soon as I can tomorrow to share the news.  I am so grateful that Annabelle is such a brave, sweet girl and my rock when I am weak.  I'm a lucky mom.