SHORT UPDATE ONLY: MRI showed just the one lesion on my spine (it’s in the T9 vertebra), so that was fantastic news – working through radiation planning now – I should start late next week or following week – probably 3-5 sessions total – idea is to hit that vertebra without getting too much radiation […]
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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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
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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Okay, the date is set. The TFC (Thymoma Fighting Championship) up in NYC is scheduled for this coming Friday, April 2nd. That’s right … Good Friday! We are heading up there tomorrow for interviews and the weigh-in (actually, I have appointments Monday and testing Wednesday, but “interviews and weigh-in” just sounds cooler). Surgery Friday is to cut
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I could make this the shortest post ever, by just typing “Thank God,” and leave it at that. That really does sum things up today … but if ever there was a post that deserves a few words, it’s this one. Five months ago, I sat in my truck up at the football fields, waiting
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