September 13

A few weeks ago, it was just a regular Tuesday night. Scott was upstairs giving the kids a bath and I was watching tv and feeding Elliott. And my phone rang with “unknown” as the caller.
Unknown is how my oncologist shows up on my phone and I wasn’t expecting a call from him. I answered and he said, “hi Nicole, it’s Dr. Reyes.” I already knew it was going to be him and now to find it why he was calling me after 7pm on a Tuesday!!
Apparently, my CEA level is up from a 1 to a 3.6. It’s the first time it’s went up since chemo. (Dr. wants this number under 3. My dr. In St. Louis wanted this number under 5.) The CEA is a cancer marker in my blood and could mean that cancer is present in the body. It could mean nothing at all. I questioned if the CT scan could miss something, and he said yes. 

So today, I had labs to check the CEA level. I will hear back in the next couple of days on the new number and next steps. So now we wait, again.
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