I have new PET scan results.  It shows no new cancer spots, but all the cancer spots in my chest are slightly larger and slightly more active than they were at my last scan last quarter.  Progression stinks. It means we’re switching drugs again because the Carboplatin and Herceptin are not doing the job.  I will start Ibrance and Faslodex.  I continue to be...

I haven’t written a lot lately… I’ve been really prioritizing being p.r.e.s.e.n.t. in the space I’m in.  Summer, with the girls home all day, was wonderful. I titled this post random catch up, because that’s what it is.  Almost every snippet could be a longer story, but ‘random catch up’ is feeling like the right thing for...

During my very first semester of college in the fall of 1997, I took a class at Miami University called Geography of US National Parks.  I selected it as one of my core foundations classes to check the box for a physical science credit.  It sounded interesting when I signed up and it exceeded my expectations in every way.  It was a fascinating class: the professor...