Our Monday

-
Brian snapped these two pictures this morning. Rory looks pretty excited to (1) have her daddy to herself and (2) have both kittens on her lap.

blog2

blog1

These pictures were taken shortly before I called the doctor, he said to come in immediately, and we began the mad dash to pack overnight bags in case my doctor's visit was going to turn into a hospital stay. Good news! The knot is just scar tissue. Now if I could just get rid of this raging sore throat. Feeling pretty miserable, but definitely happy to know the knot is not a problem. The kids are spending the day and night at Gram and Gramp's house so I'm camped out on the couch with my box of kleenex and cough drops.


Comments

Mayme said…
Glad to know the knot is nothing to worry about! Hope the sore throat goes away soon. Love ya!
2:06 PM
Anonymous said…
Great news, so happy your knot wasn't an infection.

:)
renee
2:17 PM
Joyce said…
Good to hear--scar tissue definitely sounds better than infection coming back. Hope your throat feels better.
2:59 PM
Susanne said…
Hooray scar tissue!!!
7:56 PM
Jessie said…
Adorable photos...those kit-tays are cute! Hope you feel better soon!
8:36 PM
Christine @ 12,450miles said…
I. LOVE. THESE.

And YAY for good news!!!
8:20 AM
Amy said…
So glad to hear the knot wasn't anything serious and hope your throat is feeling better by now! Those kittens are so adorable and so is that beautiful girl holding them! :)
7:10 PM
Krista said…
This post makes me want a kitty... but sadly that won't happen... maybe a puppy!
And yeah for no infection!! But sore throat - go away!
10:40 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Scoop

-
Our meeting with Dr. W today was fine. Not encouraging, but fine. I don't know why I expected better news, but I think it's hard not to hope that the bad news you hear is somehow wrong; that they've somehow made a mistake. Basically, the cancer is still the same as prior to chemo. Possibly a little larger, but he said it was hard to tell. He was glad that it had not returned to my bowel or colon (because that was a large part of my initial surgery), and my chest and lungs are still clear (apparently, this is the next place the cancer would go). It does not change my stage of cancer (still 3c), and remission is still a possibility, but he said that it would be very tough to get there.  There are several more drugs that we can try, which is good, but unfortunately they each have a success rate of only 25%. It's a little too early to be considering clinical trials because hospitals who hold the trials like for the patients to have tried the more main-stream drugs firs
Read more

Late Night Ramblings

-
Image
1. Thanks to Andrea for driving me to chemo today. I'm always a little anxious on the way in and the very few times I've had to drive myself, it's been a little lonely coming home. But not today. 2. A fellow chemo patient today thought I was in my 20's. Score.  ("score" would be a term I'm borrowing from Becky ) 3. I did not wear a scarf today to chemo, and all the nurses and doctors did a double take since they didn't recognize me. So wierd. I recognize me with hair, bald, and with a little puppy fluff. 4. Dr. W. is adding Avastin , a new drug which will help prevent cancer cells from growing, to my current Gemzar routine. Good news is that it won't make me feel any worse. Bad news is that in a small percentage of patients it causes severe side effects involving blood clots, kidney failure, ulcers, and holes in your bowel. Good times. 5. I've been instructed to head directly to my primary care doctor for blood pressure medic
Read more

Scenes from the Soccer Field

-
Image
So I may not have apologized yesterday about the number of pictures, but I am definitely going to today. Because  coughcough thirty coughcough just might be excessive. And probably my family will be the only ones who look at all of them. But I don't care. :) By the way, we completely lost and did not even score a goal yet again. Rory tried really, really hard. This team was head and shoulders bigger than we are, way more coordinated than 4 year olds should be and their coach kept their A team in the entire game. Even after scoring some 15 goals. Oh, well. Rory still enjoyed herself. Which way is the goal again? Notice her position in this picture. Notice how she passed the girl next to her? No, I am not competitive at all. Not sure where the other team is. Oh, wait. There they are. See how much bigger they are? You'll notice she almost always runs with her mouth open. Either that or her tongue hang
Read more