Hello!
Sorry I haven't posted to the blog recently. I got home over a week ago, and have been telling myself over and over and over to update the blog. Dave has mentioned updating the blog. A friend asked why I hadn't updated the blog. Well, gosh darn it. I guess I'd better update the blog :)
My parents brought me home and visited here in Moscow for 3 days. We all went to the WSU-UO basketball game. Despite the last three miracle wins by the Ducks in Pullman, this year, the Cougs beat us. Bah. Since I've been back, Dave and I have been (kinda) busy cleaning the house. While it currently doesn't look like it. Tonight we're gonna clean the living room and kitchen. Hooray! I'm currently only working one day per week at the Forest Service, and trying to finish my thesis on the other days. I've procrastinated long enough. With our future currently on hold, I want to get at least one thing done! I taught myself how to use Adobe Illustrator the other night so I can do some cool figures for the thesis. I'll also be able to tweak my $850 piece of artwork -- the professionally done illustrations of my artifacts. SIGH. I've got a few points to illustrate still, and will have to do it on my own. I'm hoping they turn out half as good as the professional ones. We'll see.
On the the Big C front, I've been a bit up and down. I think the last set of treatments just knocked me out a bit both physically and emotionally. Even though the doctors and nurses constantly tell you not to worry about numbers, Cycle 4 was hard for me to deal with. I was devastated in the hospital when my body only allowed me to get five doses of IL-2. I know in my heart that just getting a few doses is great, but I'm used to getting 10 to 12 doses. My irrational brain sees the 5 doses as failure ... that those doses can't help with so few .. but I'm wrong! Be hppy I can get any doses at all! Some melanoma patients can't have this treatment, and some don't get any positive response at all. Only one in five patients get a positive response (me!), and out of those, only one in four get a cure (me! hopefully!). My oncologist, Dr. Crocenzi, hinted that we may be done with treatment after the 4th dose, but I have a feeling that I am in for the final 5th and 6th doses in the near future.
Early February will be very busy for us. I have doctor appointments on Feb 4, 9, and 13, and then Dave and I are heading to the Blue Mtns of Oregon for a skiing weekend after Valentine's Day. Hopefully we have something to celebrate. We will see the oncologist on Feb 13, and he'll give us the results of the PET/CT scan and endoscopy, which take place the previous weekend, in hopes that they show the cancer has not grown, or decreased and gone. Think positive thoughts for us!
Cheryl
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Positive thoughts coming your way from Utah! Have fun skiing and do a run for me, we've not been yet as we're still unpacking.
Jennefer P.
Jennefer,
Hope you're not having to dig out too bad from the latest snows!
Cheryl
Positive thoughts from Seattle!
Have fun up at Anthony Lakes and if you're staying over in Baker, make sure you hit Barley Brown's on main street (great microbrewery).
-Scott
Cheryl - I'm in Park City for an FLT meeting that is supposed to end today, but there's a big storm and all schools & many roads are closed. We may not get home today unless the weather improves significantly. We literally sit in our meeting and look out the windows at one ski hill - but couldn't see it due to a white-out the first day. We haven't seen much of Park City - have just walked across the street for dinner. Need to find/unpack my ski boots!!
Have fun skiing
Jennefer
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