Wife's Diagnosis SCLC: Chemo Next Week-What Should I Do?

After three weeks in the hospital and two weeks in rehab my wife is finally home.
She has missed two months of immunotherapy treatments so a body scan was done. A tumor the size of a walnut was found on the side of her heart. An echocardiogram was done and for now her heart is functioning normal.
The plan now is to restart immunotherapy and hope it will reduce and her rid of this tumor.
She's feeling pretty good so hoping and praying this works.

@bovic21 The radiation on my wivfe's adrenal gland finsihed 8 days ago.
The problem now is the radiation irritated her stomach so much she is not able to drink or eat anything. She has been in ther hospital for 5 days with fluid IVs, but still not eating.
The doctors are now talking about giving her nutritions thru a tube. It is called TNP.
When I goggled TNP I saw that there are some risks involved.
I was wondering if anyone has some history or knowledge of TNP.
Thanks,
Vic Read

Hi Lisa @lls8000 , thanks for your concern. My wife is doing pretty good, but getting awfully tired of all the doctor appointments and treatments. She has three or four appointments every week. And the infusion treatments are almost a whole day process. In her condition getting ready for those appointments is drain on her energy. Luckily she's hasn't givien up on the fight yet.
The treatment decision on the tumor in her adrenal gland was radiation, five treatments over two weeks. That has started this week. Her brain MRI on Monday showed that the prevouis four tumors that were radiated are gone! That was great news, but two new tumors have showed up, After radiation on the adrenal gland is done then they will radiate those two. The hits just keep coming, haha.
Thanks for asking about me. Some days I feel worn out also, but I do try to walk a couple of miles everyday and that helps keep my energy level up. And I do sneak a nap in every once in a while!

My wife has been on Tarlatamab for around six months. She is tolerating the treatments well, with the only side effects being loss of taste and fatige. But we're learning what foods do still taste ok and which do not. And we're retired so there is time for naps!

She had a Pet scan this week that showed the tumors below her neckline are getting either smaller or are gone, except for one. There is one in the left adrenal gland that is showing a slight increase. Her doctors are now deciding if radiation or cryoablation might be needed to additionally treat this one tumor.

Has anyone else had a tumor treated with cryoablation? And if so, how were the results and side effects of that trestment?

Next up is a MRI on the brain in 2 weeks. Praying for good results from that.

My wife has been on Tarlatamab for around six months. She is tolerating the treatments well, with the only side effects being loss of taste and fatige. But we're learning what foods do still taste ok and which do not. And we're retired so there is time for naps!

She had a Pet scan this week that showed the tumors below her neckline are getting either smaller or are gone, except for one. There is one in the left adrenal gland that is showing a slight increase. Her doctors are now deciding if radiation or cryoablation might be needed to additionally treat this one tumor.

Has anyone else had a tumor treated with cryoablation? And if so, how were the results and side effects of that trestment?

Next up is a MRI on the brain in 2 weeks. Praying for good results from that.

My wife has been receiving Tarlatamab every other week for 3 months. A body PET scan and a brain MRI was recently done. The scan showed that Tarlatamab was reducing her cancer in all spots below the neck! But the 2 brain tumors had grown slightly and 2 new little ones have appeared.
Because of this growth and new brain tumors, she is going to have Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS), Her radiation doctor calls this sniper radiaition. Tomorrow she goes for a face mask fitting and then she will receive either 1 or 3 sessions of radiaiion.
I was just wondering if anyone has had an experience with this type of brain radiation? and if so, how successful was it? and how bad is the mask fitting and wearing?