This afternoon we're scheduled to see the Radiation Oncologist after the usual Ethyol injection and radiation treatment (we will see him every Tuesday during these seven weeks).  One thing to talk about is Lisa's resting heart rate which is consistently over 100 now, and in fact yesterday was between 110 and 115 at times while just sitting in a recliner or in bed.  Today it hit 120 at one point.

Tomorrow, we have a chemo treatment (Navalbene) before the regular injection and radiation.

Update:  The doctor says all is going well from what he can see, and he's especially pleased that Lisa's SVC Syndrome symptoms have eased and that her coughing has also lessened.  He's "not too concerned" about Lisa's elevated resting heart rate at 120 or below, since it's somewhat expected when there is pressure on the area of the heart from a tumor like this, and the steroids that she had to take for the SVC Syndrome may have added to it... "but we'll watch it."

There will be no diagnostic scans until at least a couple of weeks (and maybe 4 or 5 weeks) after radiation treatments are all finished.  The scan we'd been told would be coming mid-treatment is a "treatment re-scan" which is designed to continue to refine the radiation field and intensity to best suit Lisa as things progress.  Presuming that the radiation does its job, subsequent lung surgery would need to be done sometime between week 2 and week 12 after radiation treatments finish.  Too soon and there's still too much local irritation, and too late and too much scar tissue develops.

Michael