Happy new year

Laura is having an infusion on New Year's Eve.  I brought pancakes and tea for her!  We are having a fun long vacation. The kids and I are not driving Laura or eachother too crazy!  Hope you all are well. 

Happy thanksgiving!!

It's been forever since I posted.  We are doing well. Here is asynopses:

Laura:  it's been over four weeks since Laura's last and final taxotere chemo.  Just last weekend she said she actually felt ok at night!  She had her two biologicals a week ago today which made her sleepy but not too bad.  She has open cuts on four out of five finger tips from the chemo.  Her eyes are watering so much that there is some ick under her right eye.  Little mouse fuzz hair is starting to grow back more and it's so soft!  In general her spirits and how she is feeling is on the rise.

Tim:  thriving.  Just put new speakers in his/Ani's car which he loves.  Cross country went well and he is loving his welding class at Clatsop community college. 

Ani is home right now.  She just loves occidental college!   It's wonderful having her home

Jon:  I am lucky to love my job.  I am excited about how well Laura responded to the chemo but it is hard to get excited because I don't want to get my hopes up  too much.   Don't get me wrong it is amazing the rumors have shrunk so much.  I just sure hope they continue to stay small!!!

Laura's brother Richard, his man Fajar, daughter Rose and random friend are coming for thanksgivings!  

My cousins Tim and Kathryn visited from hailey Idaho last weekend which was great!  Here are some pics:

Chemo in Astoria.

Laura has just started her herceptin infusion in Astoria.  It took over 3 weeks but she finally is able to do infusions here in Astoria which is great!  She swam this morning and I worked until 1230 and. Will go back to the office later too!

Lauras scans

Good news!  Lauras scans today continue to be good news!  They cannot see any cancer in her ct scans.  While there is something in the left side of her liver, they think it is a cyst and not cancer.  Dr Raish, her medical oncologist, said she is very far to the good side of possible outcomes of her treatment.  He expected some results but he did not expect not to see any cancer so that is great!

Dr Raish would not say NED (no evidence of desiease) but he did say he is very happy with the results. So happy he has decided to do two more sessions of taxotere which is the chemo drug that Laura is taking along with the two other biological drugs that go after her exact type of cancer.  So Laura was just given 20 mg of steroids since she did not pre load her body with steroids yesterday and today to accept the taxotere.  Her nurse said she would not be sleeping tonight but at least they are being as aggressive as possible!

We are having our traditional Thai food lunch we have been having for chemo!

Jons knee

Just saw an orthopedic in longview today. I did tear my meniscus but it is healing well and no surgery for now!!!  Good news!  Quite a bit of bone on bone arthritis but that is a long term issue no something I need to worry about now!  So good mews 

Beautiful day at the beach today!!

My turn with the baby