March 2011
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Scan Results
I am glad to report that the mid-term x-ray and ultrasound scans came back clean. The chest x-ray showed no signs of cancer in the lungs. The ultrasound of her internal organs also came back with everything looking as it should. Her left kidney (right kidney was removed with the tumor) was a big focus of this round of scans and all indications are that it is doing everything it should be doing. ...
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“There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
I pray for the courage to live by these words.
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Half Way Point
For those, like ourselves, who are keeping score, we are in week 12 of the 25 week chemotherapy regiment. As I write this, we are pretty much exactly at the half way point of this treatment measured in calendar time.
As I mentioned in my last post (week 10), we successfully passed through the week 10 mile marker and the completion of the weekly chemotherapies and have now moved into the second...
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Full audio of the speech I gave today at the MCC...
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The slap heard round the world →
csmonitor:
“…like someone waking from a bad dream, Arabs quickly shed old fears, and in short order found each other, by the millions. They flocked to the streets, like butterflies from cocoons. The Arab psyche is freer and, best of all, home-grown. The terms of governance in the region are permanently altered.”
Something snapped in Mohamed Bouazizi after being slapped.
The young Tunisian...
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