CA-125 Results and 34 Infusions!

By Gloria Morris | March 22, 2023 |

Today we received the AMAZING news that my moms CA-125 result was THIRTEEN!!!! A normal range of this cancer marker is 0-35! Can’t be more perfect than this! Just to give a baseline, her reading in September was off the charts and over 1200. What a miracle!!!!

I manage all of the doctors appointments for mom through my calendar and I keep my Aunt Tina up to date on where we will need to be and when by sending invites to all of our emails. I just set up the first appointment for THIS FRIDAY – mom will receive her first standalone immunotherapy infusion for ZIRABEV. It was weird to set a recurring invite – a repeating event for three hours every three weeks for two years! That is 34 occurrences for now! We will be busy fighting – just like a workout 🏋️‍♂️ class!!! Let’s goooooooooooo!!!!

So much to be grateful for, I reflect on this every single day.

Posted in Updates and tagged CA 125, Dr. Kurnit, Zirabev

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My name is Gloria Morris (aka GoGo) and Theresa Cicco is my mother. I am her only child and we basically grew up together as I popped in to her life at the young age of 18. She hasn't had it easy with me as I really have lived up to my childhood nickname GoGo and kept her on her toes for sure. She and I have been through a lot and even had a massive head on collision together where she endured significant injuries but I was left without a scratch. My mom had a ruptured appendix many years ago but outside of that has been very healthy. At least we thought she was healthy. Just a few weeks ago she finally felt she needed to take action on her feelings of fatigue, discomfort and abdominal bloating. On September 9, 2022 she decided to visit an urgent care clinic and based on her symptoms, she was diagnosed with a potential urinary tract infection and was prescribed an antibiotic and sent home. Six days later, realizing she didn't feel better she made an appointment with the nurse practitioner from her Dr. office and I took her to get checked on September 15th. The nurse practitioner, Patti felt a CT Scan was the best next step. After much back and forth, we were able to expedite her CT Scan and get her in the next day, September 16th. She went home after her test and we waited for the results. Dr. Lauren Harting called her at 7pm that evening and asked that she proceed to the emergency room that Friday night. My Aunt Tina (Popp nee Cicco) took her and I left my fundraising event and headed to St Mary’s Medical Center. After a battery of tests and various discussions, we now know she’s been battling advanced stage Ovarian Cancer. To say we are devastated is an understatement and after thousands of text messages to loved ones I decided to use this platform to document and consolidate information about our journey together. We have so many friends, family members, work colleagues and customers from our family business (John Cicco's Menswear) who want to know how my mom is doing and I have decided this is the best way to communicate. I will also use this for my own documentation and to organize all of the new information that is being presented to us for the first time. There are few backdated journal entries that are more for my own historical documentation. Thank you for your understanding and patience as we work together to fight for her life.