Fantastic: The PET scan showed no new hot spots. Cancer is NOT rekindling. Disappointing: The two remaining, shrunken tumors are not yet dead. In a preliminary report, the PET scan technician (or whoever phones over the preliminary info) says the scan shows “residual disease” in two already-known spots, which we Continue Reading
Tuesday
Tulips are blooming. Sunshine is forecast. Neighbors are emerging from their winter burrows. Val had treatment Wednesday, and all her blood numbers continue to be very good. (She’s a wee bit low on sodium, but we think it’s the gallons of water she drinks. I am going to get her Continue Reading
Now it’s April
Hello tenacious fans, We are still here. It’s April now. Things are riotously blooming all over Portland: trees, shrubs, flowers, mosses. Right now our front yard has four kinds of daffodil still in bloom (the early spring climate here works as refrigeration and the daffodils bloom for months), hyacinths, euphorbia, Continue Reading