Celebrating!

I finished round #5 of chemo Mon. and I'm feeling good.  It's always nice to get to that two-week break and celebrate feeling almost normal (normal for me).  It's not time to drink pepsi yet but maybe by this weekend.  I know that's not much but that's all I have.

no news update!

Another good week - hence, no real news to update.  I spent a couple days playing golf and a couple days trimming shrubs - I think I was able to stretch a day of yard work into at least three days.  I'm finishing week #3 of chemo so I'm having to deal with mouth sores - eating and talking are not as much fun as normal but otherwise I'm feeling good.  Looking forward to this round of chemo ending 8/29.

Eleanor's eyesight has improved but she is not totally satisfied with the results.  She was hoping she would not need glasses but she sees more clearly with them.

Hopefully, we can get a good rain so I can work on the yard during the next couple weeks - lime, plugging, seed, etc.

A day of golf with the 'big' boys!

The highlight of the week so far has been playing golf with my two 6-year old grandsons, Jackson and Isaiah.  I think they had fun too.  We played 9 holes at Oak Valley just for fun - we didn't keep score so they couldn't beat me!  That also allowed me to adjust the rules as needed for pace of play and to avoid losing all our golf balls - we only lost 1 and that one was well hit into the water.  They are both big time golfers now. 

As for health, as illustrated, I'm doing well - playing golf 2-3 days a week and feeling good.  I'm in week 2 of another round of chemo and still drinking pepsi but will probably have to stop this weekend or soon after.  I'm looking forward to temperatures in the 80's rather than 90's for a few days at least.  Eleanor's eye is doing well, no problems, and eyesight seems to be improving steadily.

News worth waiting for!

All good news!  No lung cancer!

We finally had the dr. appt. today to get results of the biopsy.  Dr. Aklilu reported that the spot is kidney cancer which means we continue treatments as before.  Therefore, probably tomorrow, we'll start the next round of chemo.  It was great having 4 weeks off (especially while having the grandchildren here) but now back to business as usual - scans again after two rounds of 4 weeks of treatment with a 2-week break in between.