Wow!

Karen is amazing. Five days ago she had a chemo treatment, and today we went hiking/caching at Red Hills (between Oakdale and Jamestown). One of the caches was .3 miles up a steep hill, and she made it nearly all the way. Of course, there have been some really bad, down days too, but lately […]

Status

Here’s our current status:

Aug. 2: surgery. Went well, but pathology later showed cancer in one (but only one) lymph node.

Recovery was good. While she was completely wiped out for 3 days or so, pain was not a big issue, and she managed it with over the counter tylenol.

Aug. 10: oncology. Chemotherapy is […]

Hmmm…

From The Fellowship of the Ring DVD…

Frodo: “I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.”

Gandalf: “So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that […]