On Friday, March 28th, Darrell had the full body scan at Huntsville Hospital. It took less than an hour to do that. The guy doing the scan (Frankie--the man who administered the radioactive iodine pill) couldn't tell Darrell any results of the scan, but he did tell him that if he was comparing the pill that Darrell took back on March 17th to regular radiation, it would have been equivalent to about 40 treatments. Wow!
There have only been a couple of side effects of the treatment. Everything that he eats tastes very bland. He's eaten much more Mexican food and hot spicy food than anything else. Even that doesn't taste very good to him, but it's about the only thing that has any flavor. The doctors told him that would happen and it should go away at some point.
He's lost some of the weight he had gained and the swelling in his face has almost gone away. His voice is almost back to normal, just not the full volume yet and singing isn't there yet--not enough breath yet. But it will be back!
Thank the Lord we're at the end of this process. I'll post again when we get the final results from the body scan. I'm claiming that Darrell will be screaming "I'm cancer-free" (similar to Dave Ramsey's radio show where people call in and shout I'm debt free).
By the way, we are planning to walk in Relay for Life, sponsored by the American Cancer Society on May 1-2 @ John Hunt Park here in Huntsville. We will be on the Piano Man team, in memory of Dwayne Andrews (our church piano player) and also in celebration of Darrell "surviving" cancer, along with others like James Cole, etc. I'll post the website later if you would like to make a donation to the cancer society.
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