The office called me yesterday and said that the machine for testing the CA-125 number was down for some maintenance so I would have to wait another day for the results from the test.  I checked online today and my number has risen slightly to 12 (from 10 the last couple of times).  Hopefully that is nothing to worry about yet.  Hopefully it will not continue to go up like happened a little over a year ago now...

Had my 4 week appt today again. I had to wait a long time for them to even call me back for my lab work today. After waiting for about 20 minutes I went and asked at the receptionist desk and they said that they were just really busy and would get me back as soon as they could.  I ended up finally getting called back for the labs and by the time I saw the doctor it was about an hour past my appointment time.  (Usually they are pretty close to schedule and I am usually called back for my labs within 5 minutes of checking in at the front desk.)

I met with another resident fellow today. I'm never sure what to say to them because I really don't have any symptoms to complain about and not much to really discuss with them.  After that the doctor came in and I let her know that my surgeon is moving.  We think it would just be easier to transfer my care up to Huntsman so we are not having to send results back and forth between the two offices.

I also asked the doctor if I could ever be considered in remission. I have people ask me all the time and I am never really sure what to say to them.  She said that yes I can tell people that I am in remission - since I have no evidence of disease and my CA-125 number is within normal levels.  She said that I am just receiving maintenance therapy for the cancer - we are not actively treating any cancer.  So "YEA" I am in remission!!

I had a mammogram today.  It went pretty quickly and then the technician said that the doctor was going to look at the scans while I was waiting in case there was something of concern on the scan that they wanted to take another look at.  So after waiting for a few minutes back in the waiting room, the technician came out and said that things looked good and that I could go home.  That was kind of nice - better than the last time when I had to come back a couple of days later to do some rescans.

I had my 6 month appt with my surgeon today.  She said that she is moving at the end of June so this will probably be my last time seeing her.  Her husband got a new job in Michigan so she is transferring to a practice out of the University of Toledo.  She said that I can either transfer my care to one of her partners in the office or just transfer to one of the doctors at Huntsman.  Other than that everything went fine for my appt.