Posted On: July 22nd 2026, 09:01 pm
You want the good news or the bad news first? 🤔
The last 4 weeks have been a busy hot mess. We’ve had bad days with some worse days sprinkled in.
I won’t bore you with a week by week run down so here’s the summary.
🙁 We’ve had one urgent care visit. Diagnosis was UTI with 5 days of antibiotics. Come to find out not only was it a UTI, Kristine also has cystitis caused by the radiation and chemo meds. Insert another med in the mix.
Routine mammogram that resulted in not so routine results. 🙁 They spotted something unusual so they had a second diagnostic mammogram. Again not good results so they did a biopsy. The results came back last week and she has atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH) bordering on low-grade ductal carcinoma in situ with calcifications. She will have the mass surgically removed so we have a surgery consult on September 11th.
Ok. So now on to the good news. 😁
Kristine had an appointment with her Radiation oncologist yesterday and her oncologist this morning, and is sitting in what was supposed to be her 4th of 6 chemo cycles in this round of treatment.
She had a PET Scan on 7/17. We received the results this morning
Kristine doesn’t have to do her last two cycles. This will be her last chemo treatment!!! 🎉🎊
Her oncologist was really excited about the results. We’re really excited about the results!!!!
They think this last chemo treatment, plus her body still responding to radiation, and ongoing immunotherapy will be enough to eradicate the little active cancer that is still remaining. She will have another PET scan in 3 months.
These are the results we had hoped for. This is all good news. 🎉🎊
She’s going to continue on Keytruda (immunotherapy) and Avastin (to stop the formation of new blood vessels, starving tumors). Those infusions will continue every 3 weeks. She’s so happy she doesn’t have to continue chemo!
She did it ya’ll … for now. Keeping our fingers and toes crossed for good results in future PET Scans. 🤞🏾
Thank you to everyone who has supported us and poured love into us through this fight. 💕
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