Steady On

There's not a whole lot to report at the moment. Karen had her most recent maintenance chemo infusion last Monday and as I write this she is languishing in bed. While the recovery from this minimized chemo dose is decidedly better than it was with the full-on chemo, it is still, as the wits say, a real bitch.

And still we soldier on. Karen is looking forward to Dash's graduation in a couple of  weeks as that was the stretch goal she had set for herself. Then, later in June, because the maintenance chemo is so relatively tolerable, she and Miranda will travel to North Carolina to spend a week for some sort of Ultimate Steel Sisterhood of the Traveling Ya-Ya Magnolia Pants where they will join both of Karen's sisters, Karen's best friend since high school, Karen's mom, and a special one-day guest appearance by Karen's Aunt Molly. I will be home. Or in Atlanta. Or maybe Shanghai. No, really.

Party on, everyone.

Shrinky and the Brain

The new leader of Karen's medical team.

Karen had another follow-up MRI yesterday and the results were about as good as we could have hoped for. The tumors in her brain have shrunk even more, to the point that one of the three is basically impossible to find without shrinking down Donald Pleasance and Racquel Welch and injecting them into Karen via that handy new port.

Between this and the PET Scan it seems as if  the reprieve bugle has been unequivocally sounded. Karen is doing pretty well and should continue to do so for awhile. The recovery from the maintenance chemo is going smoothly and while there were some bumps during the first week she is doing much better at this point in week two than she did during regular chemo.

So it looks like we're ready-ish for the summer and whatever that brings.