Part Seven

Good morning hepcats and kittens!  A little tardy on the latest update, but my baby sister Melody and her partner Bonnie visited over the weekend, and we were having too much fun doing New Mexico and Balloon Fiesta stuff to bother with any nasty cancer news.

The news on the cancer front is all good, so far.  Finished up my chemo and radiation treatments last Thursday and am on the mend from those.  What little hair I have is growing back already, no more nausea meds and no more nausea, and feel the old pep returning to my step.  Today is my first official day back at work, tho I won't resume traveling until next week.

The last week of radiation was a "boost" week, in which the radiation was focused entirely on what's left of the tumor (nothing, hopefully) and the surrounding area was left alone.  My scalp is still a little crispy from that but at last it's over!  A month's vacation from any treatments other than the myriad of supplements that Dr. Prasad of the Center for Life has prescribed for me.  Then I go back for new MRI's and the verdict on how successful these treatments were.

At least I got a graduation present from the UNM Cancer Center – my souvenir radiation mask (see photo).  This is the thing that clamped my head down for radiation treatments for six weeks.  Just in time for Halloween!

RADIATION MASK

That's all the news that's fit to print, gang!  More visitors this weekend as Judy and Kelly descend on Casa Bliss for more Balloon Fiesta fun.  Hope to stay in touch with all of you but I'm starting to feel like I'm old news (sniffle).  OK by me – I hope this stuff becomes ancient news really quick.

GOODBYE AMIGOS!  SEE YOU SOON – HAHA!

MELODY Y BONNIE AT JINJA BAR ABQ

BALLOONS!