Everything is stable

We got the results back from our CT scan.  Basically everything stayed stable or the same.  In reality, stability is good right now in this stage of the game.  Sure, we would have loved to have seen some more shrinkage but stability is good.  The CT scan is really just one piece of the puzzle.  It's a picture of things.  The spots and the tumor could actually be dead and just showing in the picture.  The other pieces of the puzzle are the tumor marker, how I feel, how my body is digesting food.  Well, I'm feeling very good now and the best I have since my diagnosis.  My body, without being technical, is digesting food very well.  I have no pains and have not taken a pain pill in months.  We got our tumor marker for the day and it's 25.  It was at 13 but 25 really isn't anything significantly different and is still in the normal range.  So all in all, the picture being painted is good at this current time.  The good news is my scan did not show any growth of any kind.
Dr. Hamm is actually sticking to his guns and recommended I get off of treatments, do another CT scan in 6 weeks and go from there.  This is what the normal course of action is, do we want to go with protocol?  The rationale, from his view, is it gives my body some time to recover from getting beat up.  He also believes I got the optimal amount of chemo out of this drug combo.  As Michelle put it, why spray bug spray on a dead bug?  Well, the question is how dead are the spots.  He did say that things can't really get out of hand in a quick time frame of 6 weeks.  So in the event things get worse, we shouldn't be in a horrible spot.  As we walk away from every appointment, it seems like the last thing we heard is the best idea.  We really aren't sure what we want to do.  All of the options are viable options and all have their benefits and probably none are bad decisions.  We tentatively scheduled a CT scan for June 6 which would be 6 weeks.  We can cancel and go a different direction if we so choose.  We have to send a copy of the scan to Dr. Berlin down at Vandy so he can give things more thought.  We also have a follow up appt with Dr. Harandi on Thursday.  We still have a lot to think about and we are really going to have to go with what we think God is pointing us in the direction of.  Maybe he is still thinking because nothing has been jumping out at us.  We'll continue to ask for prayers that give us some sort of direction.