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Skiing on mt hood with Ani yesterday

Big creek fishing with my friend John

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Laura had scans earlier this week.  Chemo yesterday.  She has two small tumors in her brain. 2 and 4 mm in size.  She is going to continue on the T-DM1 chemo till march and then more scans and gamma knife the tumors they saw today in March with whatever else shows up.  

Ani is home after a 2.5 month solo camping and biking road trip.  She plans to go to portland state unv next year to major in earth science.

Tim is good at Clatsop community college and so am I. I'll post a few more pics in a minute but this dumb app keeps crashing. 

We are back in the country from 19 days in Greece.  It was a wonderful trip and as always it is great to be home.  Laura is really tired from chemo and 10 hours of jet lag but doing well.  I am finding working during the summer really isn't as much fun as it sounds.  But the new job is going just fine.  My gardens survived our trip and we saw a great Blind Pilot concert last night in the Liberty Theater in Astoria.  Here are a few pics from Greece if you did not see my face book album.

We sailed on the tall ship Sea Cloud.  My Mom took us on the National Geographic cruise!  It was amazing.  Love to you all!

Back to the chemo room

Today Laura starts a new chemo that will totally destroy the evil cancer in her brain and body!

I went shopping!  Delicious pho noodle bowls for lunch!!!   

If anyone is wierd like me and likes to see detailed medical info on a procedure look below. This is a page from her gamma knife radiation zapping tumors a couple weeks ago.   It's so precise.

Back to the chemo room

Today Laura starts a new chemo that will totally destroy the evil cancer in her brain and body!

I went shopping!  Delicious pho noodle bowls for lunch!!!   

If anyone is wierd like me and likes to see detailed medical info on a procedure look below. This is a page from her gamma knife radiation zapping tumors a couple weeks ago.   It's so precise.

Today's appointment

We feel good about Dr. Laura's doctors appointment today. The bottom line is she will start a new regiment of Chemotherapy next Tuesday.  She will be on TDM-1 which is a targeted chemo.   Herceptin marks the HER2 + cancer and the chemo attachs specific proteins in the herceptin has marked so it's a two stage process on the cancer cells.

Dr Raish feels good about trying something else and is hopeful.  I feel like it's a new treatment which will hopefully keep Laura alive another year.  With another year new things come on the market and new trials will come too.

Particulars about her cancer: The worry some spot in her lower left lung is indeed cancer and it has grown 5 mm in the past six weeks.  Dr Raish is not worried about her lung spot right now.  Also it will be a good marker to see if the TSM-1 is working.

 Three of the brain tumors that she  had zapped out last week where there before.   They have all grown since last January where they were Gamma knifed out.

 Actually a more positive visit than this sounds like