One Less Thing To Worry About

So, going to try to sum up 7 days of fun in one post... (insert long dramatic deep breath here) Day 1, woke up to gorgeous landscape, goofed off by the pool, drove all along the coastline visiting beaches, had REALLY good sushi, (by really good, I mean that Jason denounced our favorite Sushi spot at home) and finished up the night with some pretty tasty dessert! Day Two: We took pictures of chickens because they're EVERYWHERE. Yes, feral chickens, roaming around with pigeons, at the store, in the parking lot, next to the beach, at the pool, etc. Drove the beach line again, stopped at a tunnel we skipped the first day, which included a beach with mango trees. Jason and Brett tried to see their worth as "cave men" by trying to knock down mangos, which took more tries than it should have only to find that they couldn't open the mango or coconuts when they got them. (I should have taken a picture of that and loaded it on "fail".) We then walked a path a...

Today I got the results from the Thallium Scan. CLEAR. Between that and the subtle action on the PET scan, they feel that the action is the necropsy of the cells from my surgery and NOT cancer. So, what this means is that chemo is done, and I'll still get scanned every 3 months. I'm already up for an MRI in mid-March. I spent most of the day telling people and jumping up and down and such. Good news. Something I've been needing to hear for over a year. Then, I went to tumor group, and someone in my group had gotten bad news on Thursday, their tumor is back. In november, 3 months ago, they had gotten the same news as mine today. No activity, chemo done, yay! Three months later, it's back. So this really took the wind out of my sails. Like, ok, so this is good, but let's not get too ahead of ourselves. Eventually it WILL come back. After talking with my mom and thinking it over some more, I decided this: it's SO my worrying personality to grab on to the firs...