Post Round 2, and Waiting

On Jan 7, 2013, at 12:19 PM, Brad Reimer <mindnbrad@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear friends and family (written by Mindy),

Brad is doing well. He had a little rougher first couple of days after this second-go-round
of chemotherapy.  Today, though, he is feeling pretty well.

In an email a few weeks ago we had written, “Brad’s labs show that some of the tumor has a component of Follicular Lymphoma.  Dr. Danko is asking a lab to be done on the IGH gene rearrangement of both the DLBCL and the Follicular cells.  Treatment and prognosis depend upon if the DLBCL cells originated on their own, or came from the Follicular cells.  So, we are waiting on more tests there.”  Since then we have been learning more online and waiting and wanting to know whether Brad has two different types of lymphoma or if it is Transformed Lymphoma.

Brad had a Nuelasta shot today (it is used to reduce the risk of infection in patients with some tumors receiving strong chemotherapy that decreases the number of infection-fighting white blood cells).   We (and Dr. Danko) were hoping for results and a chance to discuss those results when Brad went in for his shot, but the results are just not in yet.

It is interesting, because as we have learned more, we have been anxious to know more.  It can be somewhat disappointing to not know.

But we both laughed as we were leaving the Dr.s office.  We must need to learn some patience.  It is better to wait on the Lord than to wait on the labs so that is what we are going to do :).

We know we had let a few of you know we would share the results with you today. We will let you know when we know.

We love and appreciate you.  We have been so blessed by all of your love, concern, prayers, and service.  It is hard to express in words how truly grateful we are to you all.

Love,

Brad and Mindy