We heard today that Olivia is cancer-free after her surgery in February. She will need periodic scans but the docs are confident that she is NED (no evidence of disease) right now.
Score another one for Team Mike.
Terry got her hair done at Jerry's salon today and heard that he is not back at work yet--with no projection when that might happen. He has not fully recovered from his infection and has gone back to the hospital for needed fluids lately.
Please keep Jerry in your thoughts and prayers until he is fully out of the woods.
Mike
Saturday, March 19, 2016
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Updates on Olivia, Jerry, and Mike
Olivia had her outpatient procedure last Friday and spent the weekend resting at home, in good spirits. The early word from the docs is that they had good margins and are confident they took out all of the cancer tissue. She has a follow up in another week or so and likely some scans later.
Jerry's story is still in progress. We heard in early February that he was still in the hospital, and we went to visit him. He was alert, but very weak from his extended time in the hospital--and he was looking at more time ahead. The working diagnosis was that he had a parasite in his body at the time of the surgery in late December and that it kicked into high gear when his immune system was weakened by the cancer and the surgery. We learned the he was released from the hospital about 10 days ago, and is resting at home. No timetable for when he might be able to work again.
As for us, we are biding our time until the April surgery, with no recurrences of the problems that put me into the ER two weeks ago. I have had a good appetite, but eating anything more solid than yogurt remains a struggle. I have lost a couple of pounds and am right at my high school playing weight, but without the cat-like moves and bull strength I had in those days.
I am disappointed that I can's exercise beyond our walks around the 'hood until the a-fib thing gets fixed. I was really enjoying getting back to the Y for some work on the elliptical and lifting some weights, but that's on hold for the time being. I am still committed to doing (my last) Peachtree Road Race on July 4th and will get ready for that as soon as the doc gives me the OK.
In the meantime I'm just hanging out watching the Republican middle schoolers entertain me on the nightly news every day. Seriously, you can't make this shit up...if the Pope getting into the picture wasn't enough fun, now the KKK is in the mix!
Mike
Jerry's story is still in progress. We heard in early February that he was still in the hospital, and we went to visit him. He was alert, but very weak from his extended time in the hospital--and he was looking at more time ahead. The working diagnosis was that he had a parasite in his body at the time of the surgery in late December and that it kicked into high gear when his immune system was weakened by the cancer and the surgery. We learned the he was released from the hospital about 10 days ago, and is resting at home. No timetable for when he might be able to work again.
As for us, we are biding our time until the April surgery, with no recurrences of the problems that put me into the ER two weeks ago. I have had a good appetite, but eating anything more solid than yogurt remains a struggle. I have lost a couple of pounds and am right at my high school playing weight, but without the cat-like moves and bull strength I had in those days.
I am disappointed that I can's exercise beyond our walks around the 'hood until the a-fib thing gets fixed. I was really enjoying getting back to the Y for some work on the elliptical and lifting some weights, but that's on hold for the time being. I am still committed to doing (my last) Peachtree Road Race on July 4th and will get ready for that as soon as the doc gives me the OK.
In the meantime I'm just hanging out watching the Republican middle schoolers entertain me on the nightly news every day. Seriously, you can't make this shit up...if the Pope getting into the picture wasn't enough fun, now the KKK is in the mix!
Mike
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