Scan Results

Forgive me for being so lazy about posting lately. I wanted to share Nathan's scan results and it's getting late now so I'm going to copy and paste what I wrote a friend of mine regarding his results (I hope you don't mind!). I'll elaborate more late but for now I just wanted to put something out here.

Nathan got his scans on Monday, thankfully the cancer still hasn't spread anywhere else. The tumor in his head is huge, it stretches from his behind his eye (though not in his eye), in his brain cavity (though not in his brain) all the way down into his throat. The part in his throat and behind the ear has shrunk a significant amount which we're happy about, but the part of the tumor that's more in his head closest to his brain remains the same size which I'm not happy about. They said it's good though that it hasn't grown and the fact it hasn't grown is proof that the treatment is starting to work. We haven't seen pictures of the scans yet they just called us with the results, we'll get those next week and we can compare those to when he was first diagnosed in January to get a better idea of the difference. Already his left eye is moving better (it used to just stare straight ahead because the tumor was resting on the nerve that controlled movement) and behind his ear there was an obvious lump that we could see but don't see anymore. He still has a long way to go with the chemo, they do it in cycles and he completed his first cycle and will be starting the second cycle on the 27th. The surgeons still won't touch it because of it's location so we're just praying that he continues to respond to his chemo as we move forward.