Some updates are harder than others … the last one was a joy, unfortunately this one’s tough, but an important one nonetheless, if you have a minute. Since my last visit to Georgetown on the 8th, when they told me things looked pretty stable and that I had another four months until my next scan, […]
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I’ll keep this one short and sweet, as many of you are aware I had my scan yesterday and I want to get an update out there. Thanks to everyone who was praying for a good report, and thanks to God for giving us what we so desperately wanted! … A few of the tumors
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The work is the work … Before I explain the above statement, I’ll give you a quick health update: heart echo last month checked out—no issues under the hood. I’m now pretty much off all meds except the occasional Tylenol, and the dizzy spells and other weird episodes have gone away. My walks have turned
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Been a while since I’ve posted anything … hope everyone’s well! I’m doing okay, overall … The last time I ran a 5K and really tried I was 43 years old, and my goal was to break 20 minutes – I came up short with a 20:50 (6:43 pace) … A few weeks ago we
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Quick but BIG update this time, as we had our scan this week … I have so much to say (shocker) about what life’s been like over the past couple weeks leading up to this, but I’m still chewing on it all, and right now I just want to get the news out to everyone
Tonight’s Menu: 1 quick side note and 1 full-on digression (in other words you can check out now) … Side Note: I made fun of speed walking in my last post. Today I googled something about running and walking speeds and stumbled upon an article about “race walking” – I did not know that it is
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Update: I crossed over the 1 month post-surgery mark this past weekend, and I guess I’d say I’m feeling pretty good – I’m off pain meds and been working, walking 2-4 miles at a time, doing some “fast” walks (I mean just walking fast, not the actual dorky speedwalking kinda fast walking), etc. etc.. I
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You remember at the end of Rocky, when Apollo and Rocky are draped all over each other and Apollo says, “Ain’t gonna be no rematch,” and Rocky says, “Don’t want one.”??? Well, that’s pretty much the story here. Thyjoema is presently being cut into little pieces, stuffed into mice, examined in petri dishes, and experimented
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If a pic’s worth a thousand words, here’s 10 thousand words to cover our NYC vacay so far – safer to send pics anyway as I’m still hitting the fentanyl! Got to bring Aedan up for first couple days so that was really cool. As for an update, Anne pretty much nailed it yesterday, and
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An awesome Good Friday update from the Graber’s spring visit to NYC: –After five hours of surgery Joe is awake and alert! –99.9% of the larger tumor taken out. It was about 8cm–a little larger than expected. –His Phrenic nerve was protected. –Five nodules from lungs removed.–The remaining tumor on the right Phrenic Nerve and
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