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Sign In to Show Your SupportWell much has happened since the last time I wrote. The 15 brain lesions back in 09/2023responded to whole brain radiation and disappeared. The PET revealed that I did not respond to the keytruda ( immunotherapy ) and that the cancer had grown quite a bit in my both of my lungs, liver, and multiple bones including the entire spine and pelvis. I started Trodelvy ( a chemo designed for metastatic triple negative breast cancer ). I felt very good on this chemo. In December it looked as if the trodelvy was keeping everything stable and I did not have any brain lesions. I got another brain MRI and PET scan done in late february and it now shows 5 new brain lesions and that the cancer was not responding to the chemotherapy they had me on ( trodelvy) and the cancer had progressed again. I am now in what they called phase 3. As I understand it there are 4 phases. I was feeling good and was surprised to find that it was even worse. The new plan is to get a biopsy to see what the cancer is expressing and be able to target it further. I go in for the biopsy this coming monday. They will take a biopsy of the liver tumors and we will go from there. They also want to start a new chemo called enhurtu but I do not know if they will start it before the biopsy results come back. For the brain, I am waiting to hear back from the radiation oncologist for an appointment time to do/ start the brain radiation. It will only be one day and pinpoint to the 5 tumors.
As you can imagine, this has been hard to grasp, let alone process. I am so proud of kevin, and both sets of parents, who have been so supportive. There has been a lot of last minute appointments and its been overwhelming to say the least. The grandparents have been amazing at picking up the kids and watching them until I come home from whatever last minute appointment I had. Please continue to pray, to text, to call. We are praying for strength to continue to weather the storm that we are in. To continue to trust God. He is a big God and he loves me and my family. We are his children. We continue to pray to just focus on today and try to find the joy, the laughs, and just play with the kids. Thank you for continuing to read these posts. I will try my best to update this as soon as I have updates.
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