Good News and More Good News

First, this month's tumor markers were

19.5 for the CA15-3 and

1.2 for the CEA!

Great! That's five months of low numbers - I mean, numbers below 20 for the CA 15-3! Remember that anything below 31 for the CA 15-3 is "normal" and anything 3.8 or under is "normal" for the CEA.


Here's the CA 15-3 history:
Sept 2007 - 23 U/mL
Jan 2008 - 31 U/mL
Mar 2008 - 36 U/mL
June 2008 - 23 U/mL (started radiation that month)
Aug 2008 - 18 U/mL
Sept 2008 - 14.5 U/mL YAAAAAAY!!!
Oct 2008 - 19.6 U/mL
Oct 31 2008 - 15.3 U/mL
Nov 28 2008 - 19.5 U/mL

Here's the history for the CEA:

1/2008 - 1.2 ng/mL
3/2008 - 0.9 ng/mL
6/2008 - 1.0 ng/mL
8/2008 - 1.1 ng/mL (need to double check this number, but it was in that 0.9 to 1.2 range)
9/2008 - 0.5 ng/mL
10/2008 - 0.9 ng/mL
10/31/2008 - 1.2 ng/mL
11/28/2008 - 1.2 ng/mL

And, in other news, I changed the dressing on the open wound last night. I swear it has really improved in the last week. It's hard for me to measure, but it seems that the half of the wound nearest my breast bone has completely healed. All good tissue there. And, it seems like good tissue is forming in that area where there was a 2cm gaping hole. Very cool! I see L., my wound care nurse, next week. We'll see what she has to say!