Yesterday's surgery went REALLY well, and Dr. Desai said that there were no visible signs of disease in any of the tissue he removed. All of the lymph nodes were normally sized, soft, without inflamation and with no visibly dark spots ( Read more... )

Apparently, there is a new rule in all of the LJ cooking communities.

One is absolutely forbidden to share a recipe unless a dozen people beg you, with tears in their eyes and on knees bloodied from crawling through a mile of broken glass to get to your foodlike offering, to do so ( Read more... )

So.

Yesterday, we went back to Bethlehem to have the rest of the DH's stitches taken out, and to discuss clinical trials. And while all of this was going on, I got a distinctly...suffocated feeling. A feeling that, while all was going well and things seemed to be looking pretty optimistic, that there was something not altogether OK with what was ( Read more... )

Go here, and read about how my husband passed his scans with flying freakin' COLORS, Bay-bee ( Read more... )

Up with the birds this morning (although, I have to say that their tweets and twitters sound far more energetic than I'm feeling at this hour ( Read more... )

...and my husband posts more of his story here.

Today is the first day of a short "staycation" for me. Paul, of course, has been put on indefinite staycation, but I am currently relishing the hedonistic joy of watching Good Morning America without worrying about booting up the laptop ( Read more... )

My husband walked down the stairs, by himself, and retrieved his dinner plate!

\o/

He completely rocksThis whole week has been...ay yi yi. Time has gone all weird, and the days are sort of running into each other, punctuated by conversation and periods of coma-like sleep ( Read more... )

Back to the hospital.

Be back soon.

Thanks for all your good thoughts and warm wishes--it helps so much, it really does.

He's feeling a bit better today, although the pain is still pretty intense. They're keeping him medicated to help with that, but it still hurts.

Please continue to keep us in your thoughts--I'll post updates as I can.

Better than it could be, not as good as we were hoping.

Three toes gone.

Biopsy results due in by the end of the week.

Dear God.....

He'll be home tomorrow.

I haven't really eaten all day--I'm going to find something and go lie down.

Call if you like--otherwise, I'll check in tomorrow.