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NYC Sibling Trip #1

Hold on to your hats folks. We took lots, and lots, and lots of pictures while visiting NYC with my brothers, sister, and their mates.  I will be posting pictures soon, but this post doesn't have any pictures because I haven't rested up enough yet to pick photos to post. Instead we all got together on the last night of our trip and brainstormed an ABC list of the adventure.  As you might imagine, the teacher sibling instigated this, but good sports that they all are, they played along.  See how many of these NYC ABC's you have experienced. A =Big Apple & the A Train B =Broadway C =Crack Pie (yes that was the name of it, but not the ingredient),      Chinese Food, & Central Park D =Deli's & Dakota House E =Empire State Building, Ellis Island, & Eataly F =Flatiron Building & Facebook Posts G =Gail (our fearless leader) & the Guggenheim Museum H =Harlem & the Hop-on/Hop-Off Bus I =Ice Skating Rink &

Health Update--September 2014

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I'm sincerely sorry to be updating you on my health through Social Media, because there are so many people who I would like to tell in a more personal way, but this seems like the most efficient way to get the news out to the many people who I would like to ask to pray for me. As many of you know, I have blood work every 3-6 months to determine if my cancer is still under control.   For a while, the numbers have been slightly elevated, but my oncologist felt that it wasn’t anything to worry about.   Because the numbers were not leveling off, she recently decided that she needed to do a pet scan.   What were found were two very small spots on my spine (too small to biopsy to determine if the breast cancer has metastasized.)   I talked to my radiologist, and we have decided to have a cyber knife procedure done on those spots.   This should get rid of them in 1-5 sets of radiation, and I shouldn’t have any side effects except some tiredness and a little soreness.   Although it