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This week's CEA reading came in at 11.5 (October 9) which is up from last week's and more or less back to what it was in mid-August.  All the blood and metabolic numbers are okay or if among the few that are high or low, they're no different than usual and not particularly high or low.

BUT, at Ed's last appointment, he and the doc decided that a CT scan would be scheduled for tomorrow.  The last one was back in February, I think, at which time they discovered the dispersed clusters of tiny tumors in the omentum, which led to the return to chemo.  That CT scan arose because Ed noted a small lump along the incision line (from the liver surgery), but the CT scan did not show anything along that line.  However, both Ed and the oncologist are of the view that that small lump is increasing in size, so the CT scan is largely to see 'what's going on there.'

I sort of think, also, that it's hard not to have any actual information of any sort other than the CEA scores, which the doc generally feels are somewhat unreliable, although I've never been told in what way that is the case.  My take on this is that how he's doing is how he's doing, and he's doing very much as he was the last time you saw him.

It will take 4-6 days for us to get the CT scan report, but I'll put it up when we get it.