Good News! The biopsy has been cancelled!!

Dr. Weaver read Rita's MRI (with contrast dye) from yesterday and it now appears that her tumors are only clouds! He cannot do a biopsy on clouds because his targets are not obvious. They want to know if the steroids (Decodron) had anything to do with this. The doctors are going to take her off of steroids over the course of the next four days. She will come back in three weeks (August 16th) and they will run another MRI and look at it again. Dr. Weaver did say that there is a strong chance that something could come back in the absence of the steroids. They will just wait and see what the next MRI shows. In the meantime, water aerobics for everybody!

Sometimes prayers are answered! We'll keep our fingers crossed and please keep your positive thoughts coming Rita's way!!

p.s. - The doctors in Bowling Green would have had her in a third week of radiation! We're sooo glad she's with the specialists at Vanderbilt!

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