What's next?

I did a separate posting about my experience with the medical exams below for those interested in reading it. We talked a few minutes with the doctor and it sounds like the bone marrow results can take up to two weeks. He is also waiting for the second opinion on the biopsy sample from the Mayo clinic. Once we have those results and my heart and lung test results we can proceed with treatment. I get my port and catheter put in Friday the 22nd so I don't have to keep getting poked for all of my treatments and blood tests and wear out my veins. I could foresee my first chemotherapy being Monday, April 25th, the day after Easter. Then it would be every other Monday for 6 months (12 total injections). There is the slight possibility that it may be 4 months of chemo if we also do radiation but we'll talk over more specific treatment details once all of the test results are in. This is a bit longer than we had originally thought. We must have misunderstood the doctor and confused the length of a cycle versus the number of injections in a cycle. The two months we were thinking did seem a little short. We'll do another PET/CT scan after 2 months (I think) to check the effectiveness of the chemotherapy treatments. So at this point we'll wait for the oncology office to call us next week with results and also gear up for the 3-hour procedure for inserting my port in about a week. Stay tuned for more details.