Waiting Around

It's been awhile since I've posted here. While I generally try to wait until we have something worthy of remark to post, I've been getting prodded to update regardless and, well, so here I am.

There's no real news to log here. That will come later in the week. Karen's last of the initial six chemo rounds went about as expected and she is starting to bounce back. Still, every recovery gets a little tougher. The three weeks are just enough for her to recover but not quite fully. So she's starting each round just a shade weaker than the preceding one. But she's hanging in there.

Pure. Sexual. Magnetism. oh yeah.

The news we'll be getting later this week will be the reading on her latest PET scan. That took place this morning. For the first time, Karen decided to stick around and get the DVD they make for you. The DVD comes with a PET scan reader program and allows you to review all the images and navigate through the various anatomical locations. It's actually pretty freaking cool. We reviewed the images as best we could but since we don't have the images from the scan before this one at home, we cannot really compare them to figure out how things are going. We are, after all, decidedly not doctors. We have some idea what to expect later this week but, really, we're just making half-educated guesses. I'll hold off on posting PET scan stuff until the experts weigh in.

In the meantime, Karen has lost more hair and now sports the hairline of funnyman Billy Crystal. Though, honestly, can we really refer to him as "funnyman" after My Giant? The good news, aside from the hairline she has not adopted the constipated tortoise visage of Mr. Saturday Night. So she's got that going for her.