Some fun in the park yesterday

Joanne's feeling good!
Doctor appointment next week.

Yippee!

Had a good appt. w/ good news. They said based on her last 2 procedures that 1 tumor had been killed off w/ no viability, and the other tumors " took in the chemo well and are still responding" --"burning" was another word she used. They will know more about the tumors...how much they have shrunk or whether they have been killed off over next month or so.

They are not scheduling TACE procedure at the moment---there is nothing to address right at the moment----will wait to see how much damage the last chemo did. They even mentioned that the one tumor he had trouble accessing last time appears to have taken in some chemo drugs as well. She said another TACE is likely in the future, but to just keep recovering in the meantime! (her blood work looked good from last week)

They are scheduling an MRI in a couple weeks, which will give a better picture before we meet w/ transplant surgeon again (aug 12th). A lot of vagueness from docs about transplant, but she did say that the MRI would be important part of this evaluation and they always want to "leave this door open."

We are feeling happy, but almost a little weird about not doing anything at the moment....i think it is hard to get used to some good news as crazy as that is!!
Planning to have a lot of fun in next few weeks!

Old friends get together

Sue and Jennifer ventured down from Thousand Oaks for a visit.