Oh my goodness. Wishes for a speedy and favorable outcome heading your way ...

Just seeing this now. The best to both of you, Alz!

I missed this as well alz.  Ill be pulling for you and your lady.  I've had several similar circumstances in recent years with people i know or my wife knows.  Idk if it is because im getting old or what but stuff like this seems more prevalent.  Keep us updated and youll be in my thoughts.

My wifes, best friends, husband passed away from this very same thing a handful of months ago.  It was about a year battle but there was some good times, especially at the beginning.  I certainly hope for a better out come for you guys but the most positive thing you can do is take advantage of the good times you have.  Honestly that should be true for us all.

Oh no. Alz, I'll echo what Fors wrote and keep hoping things work out.

Well some more uplifting news. We're still in a very heavy fight here, but the tumor is not bigger than the last scan. It's also not smaller (at least not noticeably, but she only had 1 heavy chemo treatment). The doctors are optimistic of this, and the fact that it still hasn't bonded with the brain tissue. It's not connected, so the thought is if they can shrink it, it may be something they have a decent chance of actually removing. 

I've spent a lot of time reading on the few who do make it significantly past this diagnosis. Helps to see there are people that have made it 20-25 years beyond. A man who wasn't expected to raise his children getting to watch his grandchildren grow up. 

We're not out of the woods, we're not even close to that, but for the first time in a month, the news was not negative.

Need to make some minor corrections to this. 

It's not 1 tumor, it's actually 3. The last set of scans were 3D which revealed the multiple tumors. Truthfully this sounds awful, it may be better for the cranial pressure at the present time. There are 2 tumors that are considered very accessible but the third is the one that they really want to see get smaller due to it's location. That's also the one that displayed a few millimeters of shrinkage, so that's the best of the three. While the other 2 did not decrease in size, they stopped their insane growing, so that's also a positive. Also none of the tumors have developed and metastisized into the other tissue or cells. Huge positive. Since they aren't growing, the risk of this occurring is less while we wait trying to get her in a better position for surgery.

I also came across a cousin of a friend of mine, JJ Hanson. This guy is a monument to man. He declined a commission to West Point because it wasn't badass enough. Instead put himself through college and joined the Marine Corp. After combat deployments in Iraq, he came back to the states, his duty fulfilled. He had a seizure at work and was diagnosed with his own trio of GLB tumors, given 3 months to live and sent home to put his affairs in order. He got a second and third opinion and had surgery done at Sloan Kettering in New York. He followed it with radiation, chemo, a clinical drug trial designed to minimize the blood brain barrier during chemo, and is about to hit his 2 year mark post diagnosis. There's no secrets with this man, he has become a bit of a political activist against assisted suicide. He's found success with hard exercise and a Kenogenic diet. He drives his body to require any nutrients to rebuild muscles, as opposed to leaving it available for cancer tumors to devour and grow. I talked to him at length on the phone and my fiance is making some life changes to facilitate the things he's found success with. 

The next scan for us is Thursday, and while the news is not good, it is still better than it was last scan. Hopefully it continues to improve, and we can get her into surgery to remove these things. Next chemo treatment started an hour ago, next scan is Thursday. Keep the prayers coming, they are definitely not hurting!

Scan day yesterday. Not much size changes, but the 2 tumors in the back grew together and are now 1. 

I'm losing my patience with BJC. This diagnosis is typically followed with IMMEDIATE surgery and they pick up the fight with what's left. These guys are going outside the box with this chemo first treatment and so far we're just holding water. 

I'm hoping for surgery soon...

Fingers crossed Alz.

Thats great news.

any good news is good news

Considering you were hoping for a surgical option, and at the risk of sounding too optimistic, I'll take this as good news.  Hope it's a start in the right direction.