Mostly Good News.

This is cousins, Ava and Logan by the garden where their magic Nana grows Tootsie Roll Pops from jelly beans!  That Nana is something else!  They plant the jelly beans and the next time the come over there are Tootsie Roll Pops in the garden!

Okay, the news today was good enough that we could come home.  We stopped in Lawton and got groceries for Thanksgiving, so we just got home and got it all unloaded and put where it belongs.  I have a couple of messages that they want me to sub tomorrow and Thursday, so unless they found someone else I'll be working the rest of the week.  I'm already scheduled for Friday.  I love it!

Now, all my numbers looked good, except my cancer markers were elevated just a tad.  In August they were 52 and today they were 74.  That's not alarming, but it is worthy of our attention.  Also the nodes on my neck are multiplying; not a lot, but just enough that we notice it and one of them is changing colors.  That tells us that there is activity there and it's like if you slap a fly and he still wiggles, you slap him until he quits. So, we're changing one of the medications that I take.  We're stopping the one that is a shot in each hip, but continuing the one that is an infusion every 28 days to strengthen my bones.  Also I will be taking a pill every day.  I will see the doc, again, in 2 months so that he can see if this change is heading me back in the right direction.  They did a heart scan to see if my heart was tolerating the treatments and it looked good.  They did lung X-rays and the lungs look good.  So, the doc was very pleased with everything except the nodes in my neck and the elevated cancer markers.  After all, they told me there is no cure; we're just treating this, so I see this as an over all good report.  It messes with my plans for January, but I can work with that and I'll get to see more ballgames here, so that's a good thing.  Sorry to be so late, but it's as quick as I could do it!