I am right here

After reading Fox's post, I decided to post instead of just reading. Want to help boost Fox's statistic of posts/reads!

So I had my quarterly scans on Monday. *yawn*

Seriously, don't have the results yet. But I feel pretty optimistic and somewhat not really worried about them. Is that progress?

I pop in and try and catch up, reading what I can. It's hard for me to even read everything when I do pop in. Much less post.

Things have been moving along. I lost about 30 pounds. That was great. Then I gained 10 back in 2-3 weeks and thought, oh sh*t, so I started back on my eating and exercise plan. I've stayed pretty steady at 20 pounds weight loss. My goal is to lose back what I gained back but I keep running into setbacks (also known as eating too much and exercising too little).

My first grandchild is due any day now. When I got my cancer I was pretty sure I wouldn't live to see a grandchild. I'm so stoked about the baby coming. It's going to be a girl. Her name will be Aria.

Otherwise, I've been busy with work (which is crazy) and aging parents. My mom has been in the hospital twice. She lives in another state. Hard to keep up with her from where I am. I think her condition has cleared up without surgery, thank goodness. She had an abscess in her intestines caused by diverticulitis.

My birth dad, unfortunately, passed away last week. He was 74. Lifelong smoker, we found out only a month ago that he had lung cancer that had spread to his brain and probably his bones as well. He was gone within 3-4 weeks of finding this out. He and his family are also in another state. I was given up for adoption by him when I was 7, so we weren't terribly close. Still, due to the wonder of the internet, we've had a pretty active correspondence going for the past 10 years over email and online chess games. I will miss him.

This is news on my end. On the cancer front, no news is good news. I feel very fortunate.

Hugs,

Todd